Re: RFC: On-the-fly tainting via $^T

[Matthew Cline]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 11:57 PM 7/31/00 -0700, Matthew Cline wrote:
> >Something else which might be useful for tainting would be something like:
> >
> >     taint_var($foo);
> >     no_taint_var($bar);
> >
> >With this, any value assigned to $foo would become tainted, and any value
> >assigned to $bar would become untainted.
>
> While this is certainly doable (heck, you can do it now with tied
> variables), I'm not at all comfortable with a magic untainting variables. I
> think it's a rather bad idea.

<Shrug>  'Twas just an off-the-top-of-my head idea; not something I'd really 
fight for in the inclusion of Perl6.

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