From: Jason Voegele <jason@...>
Date: 2002-04-19T04:32:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Object#send with $SAFE >= 1

> Strange.  I tried your example in irb and got following error.  Perhaps
> my  irb is broken?  A bug in Ruby?
> 
> ruby -v
> ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i586-mswin32]
> 
> irb(main):001:0> $SAFE = 1
> 1
> irb(main):002:0> class Foo; def foo; puts "foo!"; end; end
> SecurityError: Insecure operation - eval
[snip]

Further, I get the same error trying this on:

ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]