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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, matz wrote:

>  Log:
>    * string.c (rb_str_intern): allow symbols to contains nul.
>    * string.c (sym_inspect): symbol may contain nul.

Hi, I wanted to try the above, and hit the following problem doing make 
install:

Generating RDoc documentation
./miniruby  ./runruby.rb --extout=.ext -- "./bin/rdoc" --all --ri --op 
"/home/matju/share/ri/1.9/system" "."
/debian64/home/matju/src/ruby-cvs/ruby/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:86:in 
`String#intern': Insecure: can't intern tainted string (SecurityError)
         from /debian64/home/matju/src/ruby-cvs/ruby/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:86

Which I saw was a feature introduced in a commit a few days (hours?) ago.

Besides, given that symbols can contain nulls now, why are symbols still 
prevented from being of null length? It's something that has been a 
problem in mapping Ruby to another language (PureData) in which 
empty-string symbols are (abnormally) common.

Thanks.

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