From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2013-03-20T17:10:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby tainting on primitives

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Nicolas V. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Maybe I was not clear.
>
> I actually *want* to be able to taint numbers (and also booleans).
> Ruby makes numbers and booleans behave like instances of classes, and so
> I would expect tainting to work normally (in some ways, the abstraction
> is leaking).

What would be the point in tainting numbers?  Numbers are immutable
anyway (well, you can set instance variables but that won't change
their behavior).  Also, since Fixnums are singletons tainting would
affect all locations - not likely that you would want that.

Kind regards

robert

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