Re: [racket-users] Using S-Expressions as Persistence

2017-12-25 Thread David Storrs
There's a security issue in that if someone managed to modify your persistence file they could use it to execute arbitrary code when you read it in. On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > I wrote some program which uses the `yaml` library to parse some data files. > > > Howev

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-12-25 Thread George Neuner
On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:31:21 -0800 (PST), Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: >In practice [custodian-limit-memory] has often prevented stuff from filling >up all RAM + swap, but I thought it was actually the memory limit and >nothing can go over it. >Good to know that this is wrong! >So it is rather like

Re: [racket-users] Using S-Expressions as Persistence

2017-12-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 04:26:29AM -0800, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > I wrote some program which uses the `yaml` library to parse some data files. > > > However, this morning, I had an idea. I often read, that XML is sort of a > more verbose form of S-Expressions or that it at least could be repl