Re: for loop and streams

2002-09-27 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:06:50 John Williams wrote: >We should respect default values if arrays can declare them. > >Perhaps there will be a modifier for operator declarations to declare what >the default behavior should be. Otherwise I don't know how different >behaviors for different

Re: for loop and streams

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:40 PM -0700 9/26/02, Sean O'Rourke wrote: >On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Is that sufficiently vague? > >Not vague enough, because the current implementation manages to miss the >broad side of that semantic barn... The intention is to allow aggregates to have different default

Security model for Perl with good support in Parrot (Safe/Opcode etc.)

2002-09-27 Thread Kv Org
I have always longed for a more flexible security system that could limit what a part of code could do in Perl. In perl5 Safe.pm (and Safe::Hole) have serious limitations and problems since it is difficult to have the security-limited code (that executes in a safe compartment) have use packages

RE: Security model for Perl with good support in Parrot (Safe/Opc ode etc.)

2002-09-27 Thread David Whipp
Kv Org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote > I believe Perl6 needs a facility to run > "compartmented" code (object-oriented and > module-loading) that is tagged as to its permissions > and "owner" ID. The goal would be to let such code use > harmful actions only by calling permitteed outside > funct