From: Chris Game <chrisgame@...>
Date: 2005-08-01T19:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading data (variables)

Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> Chris Game <chrisgame@example.net> writes:
> 
>> Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>>
>>> echo "test = 12; BEGIN { p $SAFE }" > data.rb
>>
>> So what's this BEGIN {..} stuff do then?
> 
> It gets executed before the $SAFE = 4 line that is getting
> prepended. If there is malicious code in BEGIN {}, you lose. 
> 
>> Chris Game

Thanks - but does it always get executed before other lines which go
through the eval(..) statement in irb? It looks like irb executes
all lines in order.

-- 
Chris Game

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