How far can CTFE go?

[Manfred Nowak]

H. S. Teoh wrote:

> the ideal situation would be that CTFE can replace writing an
> arbitrarily complex helper program

Aebitrary complex helper programs may include viruses and other nice 
surprises. Walter does not want that adminstrators have to worry about 
a compilation step to torture the system in such a way.

Which restrictions may supress such torture seems unknown.

-manfred