Re: RFC 258 (v1) Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings

[Tom Christiansen]

>Tim Conrow wrote:
>> 
>> Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> > Perhaps what you're truly looking for is a generalized tainting mechanism.
>> 
>> Sounds cool, but I have only the vaguest idea what you (may) mean. Pointers?
>> RFCs? Examples? Hints?

>Sorry for the clutter, but I didn't want to come off too clueless. I know what
>tainting is, I just don't know what you mean by generalized tainting. If it's
>been discussed before I'd love to see a pointer to the thread.

You want to have more properties that work like tainting does: a
per-SV attribute that is enabled or disabled by particular sorts
of expressions, sometimes dependent upon the previous presence or
absence of that property, other times, not so.

--tom