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

[Dan Sugalski]

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 assigned to $foo would become tainted, and any value
>assigned to $bar would become untainted.

While this is certainly doable (heck, you can do it now with tied 
variables), I'm not at all comfortable with a magic untainting variables. I 
think it's a rather bad idea.

                                        Dan

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