Lol, nothing wrong with Goto, in a language that can't raise events it's one
of the ways of handling errors neatly without excessive nesting or flag
setting.
IAM is very useful in an environment when you have multiple development
streams running on the same server. I've used it extensively in the past. Now
we have the luxury of several development and test servers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of gerry
Sent: Sun 12/09/2004 18:32
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [U2] major (?) @var security hole
imo, IAM ranks right up there with GOTO
just for my info ( sorry for my ignorance on this one ) ,
- what is the point in this type of cataloging ?
- how would such a subroutine ever be called other than from within a an
account named 'vendor' ?
- does the calling code also EXECUTE "IAM vendor" before CALLing the
catalogued routine ?
- if this is simply a namespace issue, why not call the routine
vendorSUBR42 ?
as for not a bug ...
- why document these as read-only variables ?
- why generate a compiler error ?
gerry
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From: "Ray Wurlod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 06:08 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] major (?) @var security hole
> It's not really a bug - they even supply a command (IAM) for changing the
logical account name. This is used by some software vendors who use the
(Prime-style) CATALOG verb and get their routines prefixed with the vendor
name. For example:
> IAM vendor
> CATALOG BP SUBR42
> *vendor*SUBR42 cataloged.
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