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Alexander Hartmaier <alex.hartmaier@gmail.com> writes: > Taint mode is a feature that distinguishes Perl from other dynamic > languages which might be a good thing. Indeed. > On the other hand who really uses it to increase security? You don't need it always, but once you need to write a program with security in mind it is an extremely helpful tool. > [...] > But if it doesn't make sense any more because most data doesn't come > from disk but the network today it might be a better idea to > deprecated it (slowly as usual). -1 I'm for the compile time option that is discussed here - but I am strongly against a deprecation of such a powerful feature. Kind regards, Steffen -- Steffen Schwigon <ss5@renormalist.net> Perl benchmarks <http://perlformance.net> Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next