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From: "Matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] string to list? 
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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 22:48:51 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Schwartz" <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>


> | I plan to have it do eval `{$msg} and do whatever it's
> | namespace will let it.
>
> I really wouldn't do that.  It's just too unpredictable and dangerous.
> eval considered harmful.

being as I've not implemented it my understanding is weak but I thought that
I could dictate the namespace that a process sees. If the total namespace
the ircbot process sees is

/
/bin/opme
/bin/cat
/bin/ls
/bin/eval
/bin/echo
/slashdotheadlines

then all ircbot can do is  combinations like
echo eval 'ls /bin'
echo eval 'opme'
echo eval 'cat /slashdotheadlines'

but because it can't bind new files in or import them it can't manipulate
it's namespace via the eval