Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Totally uncool and a dead end. Nobody else will do it that way. "The promises argument is specified as a string, with space separated keywords". caps as strings to be tokenized at runtime are slow, insecure and not validated at compile-time. Never trust a parser in core. This needs to be a bitmask of course. Don't let ruby programmers add OS API's.


The intended ad hominem in the last sentence does very much not apply.


Nah no ad hominem taken! I thought it was funny. I write Ruby, and love it, and wouldn't go near OS API design with a tenth foot pole.


That's about 3cm. Pretty close ;-)


I wouldn't touch it, but watching it up close is quite interesting.


What has it got to do with Ruby ?


Just an example. Could be perl also, but ruby was the fashion then.


> Never trust a parser in core.

So, we have to part ways with our dear printk ?


That would be fantastic, sure. It's a security nightmare. Know about the printf_s extensions? Maintainability?




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: