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Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au writes: > >I wouldn't trust it in cases where someone could end up dead if > >something goes wrong (and I don't trust nuclear arsenals to anything), > >but I do trust it for guile, which isn't really targetted towards life > >and death situations. > > Well, the thing is Guile's aim seems to be that it shall become ubiquitous. > I mean, the aim of guile is that it shall become a part of nearly every > GNU program as a standard extension language. And GNU's aim, you might > argue might be said to be Linus's "World Domination". The upshot is that > guile could one day be in places that you wouldn't dream of. No, I'm not > really worried, but it does give pause for thought. > > >Also, the fd's aren't necessarily going to be in a contiguous space of > memory, >which could also help. > > It will almost always help. The key word being "almost". Guile already understands -DRECKLESS, semantics of which are definable. thi