Re: Turing-incomplete Lua?

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Mike Ferenduros wrote:

> Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I'm still having difficulty getting my 
> head around the concept of untrusted config files:

We handle the problem a little differently - config files are .gz 
encoded lua tables. easy to view (winzip etc.), but safe from 
inadvertent editing. Loading just needs to unzip before passing text to 
Lua loader.
If a client CAN edit something, they will (and deny it to your face).

Adrian