[Melbourne-pm] Perl programming best practices 2011

Michael G Schwern schwern at pobox.com
Sun Jan 9 23:54:56 PST 2011


On 2011.1.10 6:38 PM, David Dick wrote:
> On 10/01/11 17:37, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> FWIW I've largely given up on taint.
> 
> I'd be interested to read the reasons.  I've got a fairly large code base and
> test suite running under taint.  Anything i should be aware of? :)

No, just too frustrating.  Especially when a CPAN module is internally
non-taint safe.  If it works for you, continue.

I haven't been writing much Internet facing code for a while so I don't know
how taint has evolved.


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