Yuval Kogman skribis 2005-10-18 21:22 (+0200): > > I read the article before. What occurred to me then did so again now. > > What exactly do Unsafe and Safe mean? Safe for *what*? > That was just a naive example - the words "Unsafe" and "Safe" are > user defined, and are chosen on a case by case basis in their app.
I think there's a lot to be gained by implementing something like this globally, consistently. CPAN is part of Perl, as far as I'm concerned. > > One problem still is that once something is encoded, quoted or escaped > > it can't always be easily re-encoded. Encoding functions should therefor > > check if a variable does safe::(none()) and warn or fail if so. > I don't see how this relates to the OP, or why encoding functions > should implement it like this. The "should" is not to be taken literally, and applies only to the described hypothetical universe. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
