On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Martin Jambon wrote:

> Is the following proposal completely crazy or could it be done (or both?):
>
> The insertion of Caml-toplevel forms in Caml online HTML manuals could be
> attractive for beginners since it doesn't require the installation of Caml
> on the local machine.
>
> This would require a strict control over the code that the user will want
> to be compiled and executed on the server.
> (we already discussed such things last week on the beginners' list
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/messagesearch?query=interactive%20learning)

What you describe seems to be overkill for the purpose. You could simply
build a toplevel with a restricted standard library (without interaction
with the OS and without unsafe operations like Obj), disabled directives,
and use a wrapper to kill the toplevel when some timeout expires.

What's wrong with this ?


-- Alain

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