In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Subich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Out of curiosity, where would you classify interpreters for secondary >app-specific programming languages? Specifically, mud-client stored >procedures (triggers, timed events) seem to correspond very naturally to >generating the python code required to execute them in advance, then >compile()ing and storing the compiled code for repeated execution.
1. If you know enough to ask the question, you're a consenting adult, and equipped to deal with the consequences. 2. Hey, that's the whole *idea* of an extension language. Go forth and Python happily, even exec() with righteousness. 3. But Python *is* an unsafe language in such uses--one of which I'm exceptionally fond, but undeniably unsafe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list