From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2013-03-21T09:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby tainting on primitives


On Mar 20, 2013, at 15:41 , "Nicolas V." <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Let me formulate it like this: if I wrote a patch for Ruby to support 
> tainting Fixnums with no performance overhead, would you accept it, or 
> do you think tainting Fixnums semantically does not make sense? If not, 
> why?

Is there a practical reason to taint a number? Is there something I'm not getting?