From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-30T01:12:44+09:00
Subject: Re: How to load vars from users' app.conf (quite long)

From: "gabriele renzi"

> Hi gurus,
>
> I'm writing a simple app that needs to read a configuration file in
> the common unix format
>
> #that is a comment
> var_name=var
>
> Well, the question is : what's the better way to load those global
> variables?
> i thought 5 ways:
> [......]

I'd suggest using eval in this case.  It seems quite correct to do so; just use
RE to ensure the correctness of the format so it can't do any harm.  If you
want to be sure, put it in a sandbox (a thread where $SAFE=6) during
evaluation.  I'm not entirely sure if global variables are contained within
threads though.

Gavin