From: james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
To: Alain Frisch <frisch@clipper.ens.fr>
Cc: Martin Jambon <m.jambon@ibcp.fr>, Caml list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Safe Caml for online teaching
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:22:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005690E2-261E-11D6-AAF7-000502DB38F5@wetware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202201648120.16944-100000@clipper.ens.fr>
On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 07:53 , Alain Frisch wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Martin Jambon wrote:
>>
>> The insertion of Caml-toplevel forms in Caml online HTML manuals could
>> be
>> attractive for beginners since it doesn't require the installation of
>> Caml
>> on the local machine.
>
> What you describe seems to be overkill for the purpose. You could simply
> build a toplevel with a restricted standard library (without interaction
> with the OS and without unsafe operations like Obj), disabled
> directives,
> and use a wrapper to kill the toplevel when some timeout expires.
Another option is to give up on trying to make the interactive Caml book
into a web service. If, instead, it were a standalone web application,
then I could download it and install it on my own local web server. No
changes to Caml necessary.
--
j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
"...the antidote to misinformation is more information, not less."
--vinton cerf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-20 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-20 15:15 Martin Jambon
2002-02-20 15:53 ` Alain Frisch
2002-02-20 16:22 ` james woodyatt [this message]
2002-02-20 17:13 ` Martin Jambon
2002-02-20 19:16 ` Christophe Raffalli
2002-02-20 16:38 ` Martin Jambon
2002-02-20 17:35 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-02-21 10:59 ` Xavier Leroy
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