From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-05-27T02:22:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 23459-23562

>>>>> "P" == Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

P> Doesn't seem like a useful feature to me.  If I will need to know what
P> the value of $SAFE used to be, I can store it.  If I need to know what
P> it is now (inside a define_method block), can I find out?

 It's, at least for me, a usefull feature. Just imagine that you want to
 run code that you don't trust, you don't want to have surprise : block
 defined with $SAFE = 4 and then run with $SAFE = 0

 The problem is that in the example given, define_method was badly used.


Guy Decoux