On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 5:53 AM Elijah Stone <elro...@elronnd.net> wrote: > I maintain--masochistically, perhaps :)--that the correct approach to language > design is 'punish the implementors'. > > The issue with putting some 'tls' locale in the search path is that it is > anti-modular. If everybody has to share that one locale for tls > data--somehow; coordinating that is probably also difficult, though I am no > locale expert and don't love the mechanism--then there is the possibility of > name collisions--exactly the problem that locales are supposed to solve (and > which my approach solves)!
The convention here is that numbered locales are considered "off limits" for general purpose code that was not specifically informed of their existence. This is not "cryptographically secure" but that sort of "hostile environment" thing is not the sort of problem we're trying to solve here. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
