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

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, as Tom pointed out to me this already exists in 5.6 as part of
FileHandle:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00442.html

So, I don't think including it in the standard file methods would hurt
things any more than people not using -T in the first place. Generally
if you use -T you're pretty conscious of wanting things to be safe, I
think.

-Nate