From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-06-05T05:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: irb bug with $SAFE?

Tobias Reif wrote:
> Philip Mak wrote:
> > I was just playing with $SAFE in irb and it said "Maybe IRB bug!!" at
> > the end. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I'm trying to learn
> > how $SAFE works by experimenting. Should I just do this in "ruby"
> > instead of "irb" instead?
> 
> IIRC: Yes, because irb uses eval.

Or spawn of threads that set the $SAFE level and call the methods you
want to test.

Not for the faint hearted, but nice for learning some $SAFE (and thread)
stuff. Just remember to set abort_on_exception for threads, wrap them in
begin..rescue..end blocks and use puts statements like mad :-)

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