On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:47 AM, David Green<david.gr...@telus.net> wrote: > On 2009-Aug-17, at 12:27 pm, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> >> However it seems we have to pay a price: each act of rendering a Pod >> file actually means executing the program that's being documented (at >> least the BEGIN blocks and other stuff that happens at compile time), >> with all the security risks implied. So we'll need a *very* good >> sandbox. Is that worth it? > > Yes.
Why is it worth it? In general, executable documentation is a bad thing. It's been shown to be a bad thing many times over. If we absolutely must have some sort of executable documentation, then if I could, I would insist that it wouldn't be a feature complete language. That is: absolutely no IO in the language, no way of executing code that's foreign to the doc, and so on. -- Jan
