From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-04-07T02:41:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Is eval a code/design smell?

Sean Middleditch wrote:

 >>>if you provide a schema in non-code
 >>>format,
 >>>
 >>you mean non- Ruby code?
 >>
 > Ya.

which format for example?


> Na, I was saying that how you were concerned with speed, pre-parsed
> loads even faster. 


So currently I seem to have a good compromise between
"security" (generated code is written to a file, in a human readable 
form, not silently evaled in mid air, or compiled into unreadable 
bytecode) and
"speed" (libs are generated only once).


> Heck, I almost never compile source code when installing software - I
> jsut apt-get it into place.  But I know if I need the source (which of
> course happens every now and again) I can get it.


But we're talking about Ruby; what does this mean then?

"methods for quickly, easily, and powerfully constructing classes at 
runtime with sending untrustable content to the parsing engine."

What features are you proposing; exactly? (I really am interested in 
seeing actual code examples.)

Tobi


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