And I did not mean this to be a language feature. Just a tool - or part of linter.
On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 11:36:36 PM UTC+3:30, dc0d wrote: > > Awesome! > > (IMHO) > > Going for total immutability is not a best fit for Go. I was thinking like > excluding packages like unsafe, reflect, executing external programs and > the like. > > Capabilities seems unnecessarily complicated - getting used to them is not > easy, like in Pony/ponylang. > > Thanks for the link, > > On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 11:23:42 PM UTC+3:30, matthe...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> We’ve been discussing stateless packages here: >> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23267 >> >> Matt >> >> On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 1:43:05 PM UTC-6, dc0d wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to identify a package as safe? >>> >>> Let's restrict the imported packages to built-in ones. Now assuming a >>> package only imports "strings" and "net/url" can it considered as safe? >>> Since it does not (can not) modify the environment (most notably executing >>> code)? >>> >>> Of course the package still can behave in a malicious manner by (for >>> example) creating too many goroutines. >>> >>> This came to mind when I was reading about package managers and learnt >>> some problems that they have. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.