From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T03:21:25+09:00
Subject: Re: When little languages grow...

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng (hgs@dmu.ac.uk) wrote:
         [...]
>> So the next possibility is to use something like
>>
>>         input = nil
>>         File.open("input.txt"){|f|
>>           input = f.read
>>         }
>>         Thread.new(input){|source|
>>           $SAFE=5
>>           instance_eval source
>>         }.value
>>
>> or something, and actually make the commands in the language methods
>> of some Ruby object.
>
> I hear ya.  I wish there was a way to open a jailed namespace.  It'd be
> like chroot'ing into a module.  The sandbox module would be addressable
> from ::Object, but would only include a limited set of modules when
> offered under chroot.

That's a nice metaphor... 
>
> _why
>
         [I'll have to explore that RedHanded site a bit more too1
         :-)]

         Hugh