On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Student Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > DOS does not occur with strings because strings can be garbage > collected. Symbols are forever.
I am very well aware of that. Still the fact remains that you can create a DOS with *any* external data if the data set is large enough and the processing does not take that possibility into account. There is nothing really special about Symbols here - as I have pointed out earlier. (And. btw., you did not argue against that.) It is the way input from external sources is read. The choice to use Symbols for data with large variance is just one of many decisions that can do harm to an application. Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- [email protected] | https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ruby-talk-google?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ruby-talk-google" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
