From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-08-17T08:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: A method for summing several variables

In article <412134AF.1060900@path.berkeley.edu>,
Joel VanderWerf  <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>Phil Tomson wrote:
>..
>> Here's a crazy idea:
>> You can't do an 'eval' with $SAFE set to 3, but you could instead of 
>> generating Ruby code, you could generate C code and use something like 
>> RubyInline or Cgenerator (see: http://redshift.sourceforge.net/cgen/ ).  
>> Either one of those can take C code and generate a shared lib (dll) that 
>> can then be called from Ruby.
>
>That's no better than generating ruby code. $SAFE=3 won't let you create 
>or load a shared lib.
>
>

Ooops... I suppose that makes sense.  

So basically, you can't use extensions when you're in $SAFE=3

Phil