[plt-dev] new language dialog, iii

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> > I'm thinking of something like
>> >
>> >
>> >  #lang some-language #!bleh
>> >
>> > where the `#!bleh' is part of the `some-language' specification.
>>
>> But the string is limited to what was consumed, so the regexp won't be
>> applied to that part of the string or so I thought.
>
> The thing that gets consumed is *anything* that the language reader
> decides to read to make a decision about all of its settings.  In the
> above case, the code dispatches to the reader in
> `some-language/lang/reader' after reading `some-lang', then that code
> can read *anything* it wants and return the info function.  So the
> point where reading reached is the point that marks all the necessary
> text to determine the language and its settings.

Oh, of course. I see. That's fixed now.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Jan 29, Robby Findler wrote:
>> You are suggesting that planet and drscheme collaborate directly via
>> some parameter that planet exports that tells it to parse the line
>> but return a dummy info if the package is not installed? (and use
>> various security measures to forbid network access in addition)
>>
>> I think that makes sense.
>
> No, I'm saying that if you forbid network access (via a security
> guard), then you don't even need to extend planet.  It was a little
> tricky since the first thing I tried got caught by planet (see big
> comment), but the following should be a fine version.  It seems to me
> like this works even better than a planet hook, since it will work
> with any kind of network hook in the resolver (for example, some
> future (require (url ...)) thing or whatever).

Okay, that's fine.

I probably should be using a sandbox too, so that when I run this
untrusted code I always get a result back.

That's probably a useful thing to package up into a library, ie
(read-language/sandbox ...) which is guaranteed to terminate without
killing anything and perhaps the function it returns also does the
calls inside the same sandbox.

Robby