* Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-02 15:25]: > I believe I said "in Perl6 modules" not "in the language core" > as you imply
My apologies; I misremembered the argument, and the PHP example you gave only happened to reinforce my misconception. I agree then; having clients for a few network protocols in the core distro seems very important to me as well. (Since we’re on that, I would also say that having some kind of very lightweight XML writer, at minimum, is a necessity nowadays.) > As for writing bad code that is therefore easy to exploit, I > wasn't suggesting that either. I personally advise taint be > turned on for ALL web code, but that's another thread I > believe, and this one has already started to unravel. :-) Well yes, failure to validate input is obviously the programmer’s fault. However, the more implicit magic an API provides, the more dangerous it is, and the more care is necessary when validating data to be given to it. This is why IO::All gives me the willies, f.ex., even as I understand and agree with Ingy’s motivations at large. I haven’t used two-argument `open` in Perl either since the three-argument form became available. Go look at what Dan Bernstein says about APIs… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
