Allowing relative file imports

[grauzone]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> I mean, how often do you see web sites where stuff is fed to a C 
>> compiler and the resulting programs run????? (Yes it's too slow, but 
>> that's hardly the point here.) That is simply not done.
> 
> Consider the Java JVM. You've probably got one installed on your 
> computer. It gets java code from gawd knows where (as the result of web 
> browsing), it compiles it, and runs it on your machine unbeknownst to you.
> 
> .NET does that too.
> 
> Every day my browser downloads javascript code, compiles it, and runs it.
> 
> There's no reason in principle that D could not be used instead.
> 
> This means that we should think about security issues. Compiling 
> untrusted code should not result in an attack on your system.
> 
> http://www.comeaucomputing.com lets you upload random C++ code, compile 
> it on their system, and view the messages put out by their compiler. 
> Suppose you did it with D, had it import some sensitive file, and put it 
> out with a pragma msg statement?

Your compiler can do the same:
http://codepad.org/hWC9hbPQ