On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:03 AM, David Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
> A feature you shouldn't use in production is a feature your attackers will > use in production. ;) > Not just your attackers. Worse. You, probably. I often thought, while I was a Smalltalker, "hey, I can use become: here" or "I'll just add a finalization block for this object here". Always the wrong thing to do. Eventually I learned to avoid even considering using the magic sauces. But it's hard to resist. Perhaps we need to start talking about lower-level user space capabilities like this, that we can provide for "debugging". Presumably, a user gesture would be required to "enter debug mode", but once you're there, you have access to some of the magic. In browser debuggers, the "console" REPL would give you access to this, and from node the REPL could do this. Instead of "use strict", it would be a kind of "use magic". -- Patrick Mueller http://muellerware.org
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