Re: RFC: Reimplement Warnings and Tainting as Pragmas

2000-08-02 Thread Tom Christiansen
>Great insight, thanks. It's obvious that I'll have to do a lot more >research before (possibly) resubmitting anything on this subject. I do >like the idea of at least being able to fiddle with input source >tainting (since this is what usually gets me, even if I know the input >source is safe). D

Re: RFC: Reimplement Warnings and Tainting as Pragmas

2000-08-02 Thread Nathan Wiger
Larry- Great insight, thanks. It's obvious that I'll have to do a lot more research before (possibly) resubmitting anything on this subject. I do like the idea of at least being able to fiddle with input source tainting (since this is what usually gets me, even if I know the input source is safe)

Re: RFC: Reimplement Warnings and Tainting as Pragmas

2000-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
Nathan Wiger writes: : Is there any interest to do this in the community with tainting? Adding : a 'use tainting' to Perl 6 (or 5.7, for that matter)? Unfortunately, tainting is a data-flow/data-typing concept, and when you try to implement data-flow/data-typing concepts with lexical scopes, you

Re: RFC: Reimplement Warnings and Tainting as Pragmas

2000-08-02 Thread Nathan Wiger
> >Warnings and Tainting should be reimplemented as pragmas. > > What part of warnings(3) and perllexwarn(1) are you in disagreement with? Not yet fully-versed on everything having todo with 5.6, appears I made a bit of an oversight (i.e., as you mention 'use warnings' is already in 5.6)! So wh

Re: RFC: Reimplement Warnings and Tainting as Pragmas

2000-08-02 Thread Tom Christiansen
>Wanted to get this out as an idea that could encompass lots of the >concerns I'm seeing about warnings and such: >=head1 TITLE >Warnings and Tainting should be reimplemented as pragmas. What part of warnings(3) and perllexwarn(1) are you in disagreement with? --tom

RFC: Reimplement Warnings and Tainting as Pragmas

2000-08-02 Thread Nathan Wiger
Wanted to get this out as an idea that could encompass lots of the concerns I'm seeing about warnings and such: =head1 TITLE Warnings and Tainting should be reimplemented as pragmas. =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2 Aug 2000 Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: perl6-