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

[Graham Barr]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:56:48AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> What I was thinking of was something along the lines of a lexically scoped 
> pragma--"use taint"/"no taint". (We could do this by sticking in an opcode 
> to set/unset the tainting status, as well as the warning status, and so on) 
> Taint checking is disabled in a no taint block. Whether we still set the 
> taint status on a scalar could depend on the -T switch, so data would still 
> be tainted in a no taint block.

I agree with a pragma. But I think there should be some distinction between
taint setting and taint checking.

Graham.