Re: Turing-incomplete Lua?

[Matt Hellige <matt@...>]

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@sci.fi>]
> 
> Imho, this is not a question of Turing-to-or-not but of proper 
> sandboxing, right?  I mean, if there's absolutely no way the program 
> can contact outside world (read files etc.) then what harm could 
> turingness possibly do?

Presumably you don't want to allow configuration files to cause
infinite loops... You could probably address that with a simple
timeout in most cases, and use sandboxing for the stuff you mention.

Matt

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