Re: RFC 14 (v4) Modify open() to support FileObjects and Extensibility

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:35:47AM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>    $fo->untaint   -  Removes tainting from that data source

I can guarantee this will be abused and severely water down the
utility of taint mode.  A discussion of easy untainting came up on
perl6-internals and fairly universally rejected.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00016.html

And again discussing RFC 227
<[email protected]> 
Hasn't hit the archives yet.  To sum up:  "Orthoginality can
blow me, detainting without filtering should remain hard."

This doesn't mean we shouldn't have a way to untaint a data source.
It can be convenient and definately more efficient than other sources.
It should just be deliberately obfuscated and buried (say, like in a
man page.  Nobody reads those.)

Definately for the guys with the white hats only.

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Michael G Schwern      http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/      [email protected]
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