[e-lang] E research topics

[Kevin Reid]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 17:49, zooko at zooko.com wrote:

> So my wish is that someone invent a way to securely re-use native  
> code libraries in E applications.  (Or perhaps Emily -- I don't  
> know much about Emily yet.)

What exactly do you mean by "securely"? How do you propose to  
restrict it?

In principle, it should be straightforward for E-on-CL to use an  
existing FFI to talk to C-style native code, but same-process may not  
count as "secure".

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>