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Re: *Old* Safe.pm/Opcode patch

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
July 8, 2001 17:02
Subject:
Re: *Old* Safe.pm/Opcode patch
Message ID:
20010708190202.T29419@chaos.wustl.edu
> There are times when it may be more prudent to walk away from a 'bug'
> that affects few people rather than fix it in a way that impacts everyone.
> 
> Not all bugs need fixing, just resolving.

The patch thusly reinterred.

> > > Many people who use, or try to use, Safe could get by with the ops pragma
> > > (which is why I separated the ops filter logic from Safe many moons ago).
> > 
> > Is this still true in the days of SOAP, XML-RPC and... insert buzzword here?
> 
> Perhaps less so, but Safe is still (from memory) fairly broken/limited
> in assorted dimensions many of which can't be fixed before perl6 and
> the others probably need a rewrite (probably to use ithreads).
> 
> Tim.

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