OpenEuphoria

Re: goto...

• Posted by kbochert at ix.netcom.com Feb 12, 2002
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Hi Mark Brown, you wrote on 2/12/02 1:25:51 AM:

>
>Hi Karl,
>
>I hope Rob can give us a solution for this.
>
>I am strongly considering buying the source (curiosity....don't actually
>think
>I am up to doing anything with it!) but it doesn't seem worthwhile if I
>can't bind/translate my code if it uses extensions.
>
>I hope Rob can find his way to providing us with a binding/translating
>solution which allows registered owners of Eu (perhaps if they have
>purchased the whole suite) to create exe's with extensions and still
>protect his business plan. Perhaps somewhere in the binding / translating
>process a password might stop unregistered users from creating
>exe's. Password held in an include? Maybe this is reason enough for
>a better installer?
>
>Mark

It seems to me that if you have the bind program, you are
already a registered user (or a thief!).

Personally, I can't see any business plan issues, but
the more I think about the technical issues, the more
difficult it seems. Bind combines the interpreter with
some shrouded code. The RDS interpreter can handle
shrouded code but knows no extensions. My interpreter
knows extensions but can't handle shrouded code.

Bind could be modified to be able to bind an arbitrary
interpreter with un-shrouded source (probably), but
then security is lost. While that wouldn't bother me,
it would reflect badly on Euphoria's capabilities.

Another possibilty I could imagine would be for the
interpreter to handle shrouded code by internally
converting it to plain text first. Less efficient,
and therefore probably not done that way now.

some speculations, at least
Karl

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