Re: RFC 270 (v1) Replace XS with the C module as the standard way to extend Perl.

2000-09-21 Thread Matthew Cline
ight C, XS, and Inline. Hmmm There's More Than One Way To Do It? ;-) -- Matthew Cline| Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you were a member of Congress. But I repeat | myself. -- Mark Twain

Re: type-checking [Was: What is Perl?]

2000-08-01 Thread Matthew Cline
. Time to dispatch > the Perl Police! :-P Great! Where do I get the torches and Frankenstein rakes? -- Matthew Cline| Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you were a member of Congress. But I repeat | myself. -- Mark Twain

Re: What is Perl?

2000-08-01 Thread Matthew Cline
around too much more extra info. (At least, this is the impression I get from my limmited knowledge of Perl internals). -- Matthew Cline| Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you were a member of Congress. But I repeat | myself. -- Mark Twain

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

2000-08-01 Thread 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 ass

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

2000-07-31 Thread Matthew Cline
With this, any value assigned to $foo would become tainted, and any value assigned to $bar would become untainted. Also: my $fh = new FileHandle("trusted_config_file"); $fh->setTrusted(1); Then anything read from $fh wouldn't be tainted, rather than having to unta