From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA12533; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:22:12 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13122 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:22:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from wetware.wetware.com (wetware.wetware.com [199.108.16.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1KGM9517614 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:22:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from kallisti.apple.com(wetware.wetware.com[199.108.16.1]) (1757 bytes) by wetware.wetware.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:22:01 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2.0.114 2001-Aug-6 #1 built 2002-Jan-4) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:22:15 -0800 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Safe Caml for online teaching Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v480) Cc: Martin Jambon , Caml list To: Alain Frisch From: james woodyatt In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <005690E2-261E-11D6-AAF7-000502DB38F5@wetware.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 "...the antidote to misinformation is more information, not less." --vinton cerf ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners