At 03:43 PM 9/15/00 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:00:04PM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:
> > I'm kinda surfing the edge here. -T is definately an internals issue,
> > but $TAINT? taint()? is_tainted()?
> >
> > I'm not sure if they should be exposed into the language from the
> > internals, or if a superstudly taint.xs in stdlib is more appropriate.
>
>perl6-internals is probably the wrong forum for this, it was just
>convenient. I think Dan's got the right idea, distribute a Taint
>module with Perl.
The only reason to do so instead of a built-in is to not snag yet more
namespace. Dunno if it much matters either way, though the code is probably
best left outside the really inner core code just to keep down the amount
of stuff that any one person needs to stuff in their head. :)
>Shall we drag this discussion on over to perl6-language? (I've CC'd
>it and added a Reply-To. This is BCC'd to perl6-internals).
Perhaps perl6-stdlib would be an even better place for it, if it's going in
as part of the standard library.
Dan
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