New syntax for string mixins

Alex_Dovhal alex_dovhal at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 19 04:55:47 PST 2010


"Don" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> I don't think it's quite the same. In a makefile, every executable is 
> listed, and so you can have some degree of control over it. But in this 
> scenario, the compiler is making calls to arbitrary shared libraries with 
> arbitrary parameters.
> It means the compiler cannot be trusted *at all*.

You are right only partially - it's unsafe for browser language where code 
is taken from untrusted source. But this feature gives so much power to the 
macro sysrem  - that I think is worth considering it. IMO, usually compiled 
code is run just after compilation (with the same prermissions as 
compiler) - so compiled code can make dangerous things and can't be trusted 
at all, but no one is worry about that. Yes compiler can't be *trusted* with 
this features, but if one knows what he is doing, why to prevent him - add 
option --enable-ctfe-DANGEROUS-features to allow potentially dangerous 
features then it wouldn't be so unexpected. Are those features hard to add 
to the current implementation? 




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