D front-end in D for D

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:21 PM, SomeDude <lovelydear at mailmetrash.com>wrote:

> On Saturday, 14 July 2012 at 13:33:16 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>>
>>> Yes, eval or exec is pretty much outlawed in other languages, I can only
>>> imagine the same would happen in D.
>>>
>>>
>> That's a huge mistake a lot of people make. They outlaw things that they
>> don't understand or don't know how to use. As I said: having something
>> doesn't mean using it. Those who can use it - will use it. Those who can't
>> - won't.
>>
>
> And those who can use it for wrongdoing will. This alone completely
> destroys the feature imho.
>

It doesn't have to be a black/white choice. How about analyzing and caching
the code before executing it at run time? If the code is analyzed and
proved to be safe - then it's executed without hesitation. Yes, it'll
require a lot of work to pull this off.

-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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