Namespace, Package, Classbox and Local Rebinding

Alexandre Bergel bergel at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Apr 23 20:09:56 UTC 2004


> Well that's just an indirect mechanism of invoking whatever routines are
> paying attention to the registry in question.  The point is, there are
> some downright innocuous ways that merely *loading* a package will cause
> changes in the rest of the system.

Humm... Right. Now I get what you meant. I agree. Basically I deal safely installation of new code. But preambule, postscript, metaclasses' initialize methods might also lead security issues. But this is another topic...

I will work back on the model very soon. And with some cute ideas...

Cheers,
Alexandre



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