On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 04:01:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >Anyhow, however these extra tainting functions are implemented is fine
> >(as long as they work). The simplest thing would be to just merge and
> >patch up Taint.pm and distribute it with perl6.
>
> Yup. I know Tom wanted an all-perl version so there wouldn't be any
> dependencies on having a C compiler around. I took the XS route mainly
> because I mistrust indirect methods. (Well, that and I'd written several
> orders of magnitude more C code for perl than perl code at the point I
> wrote that...)
If we move it into the core the availablity of C compilers is no
longer an issue. Having had a taste of the hacks one must do to pull
off an all-perl version, XS seems the simplest route.
PS I've moved this discussion to perl6-language. Reply accordingly.
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