On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, at 11:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm confused as to how this would work. The man page is talking > about the invocation of a specific method, i.e. the 'import_names()' > method. > > It sounded like things "just happened", when in fact, you must invoke > this method intentionally.
For Perl, yes. PHP provides a setting which will do this automatically, as sort of a "global default". Obviously, having that turned on is going to be a really bad idea. Which is what the PHP authors were saying. They were not, contrary to Derek's assertion, condemning the entire language as insecure. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
