Re: An object-capability subset of Python
"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]>
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Brett Cannon wrote: > > But even if we were trying to create a secure subset, no one stepped > forward to point out any security implications of the decision. I > honestly might be the closest thing we have to being a "security > expert" on the core team and that is not saying much. > Maybe you should forward interesting proposals to this list for comments. That goes for people working on other language efforts, too. Very often a small difference in a language feature makes all the difference in providing a secure subset. ________________________ Alan Karp Principal Scientist Virus Safe Computing Initiative Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 857-3967, fax (650) 857-7029 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp