Script Limits in 2.8.0 [was Spreadsheet]

[Stephen Barncard]

Yes, making up your own little language is cool (and fun, if one is 
geeky enough).

There's nothing to stop anyone from making a little text interpreter 
that could use any syntax desired, even the 'reserved' words. The 
'script editor' could just be a field or a builder, like in 4th 
Dimension. I did that in Hypercard.

The list of limited commands could just be interpreted line by line, 
and either acted upon, error responded to or ignored. And of course 
it could easily be made platform-agnostic.


>I'm working on such an app for a particular engineering niche market
>(just happens to correspond to my day job), perhaps it will be
>adaptable in future to other uses.  I'm taking care of the branching
>and looping within my code and 'doing' one script line at a time.  It
>still runs pretty fast.
>There's an early public beta at www.xtrados.com if you're interested,
>maybe you guys can point out some of the flaws.  At this point it
>doesn't prevent malicious use, for instance deleting files.  Can
>anyone suggest any more security issues to be aware of ?
>
>regards
>Martin

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