Ruby Issue Tracking System

08/14/2015

05:59 AM Ruby Bug #11442: Bug: Symbols should be taintable.

After some additional testing, I've come to the conclusion that Symbols cannot be tainted (example below). I expect this may be due to the fact that symbols have a dual meaning. 1) They are a String because we want them to be human-reada... gwelch (Grant Welch)

04:35 AM Ruby Bug #11442 (Closed): Bug: Symbols should be taintable.

Subject: String#to_sym returns an untainted Symbol.
Taint checking can be subverted by a String if a tainted String is converted to a Symbol. After experiencing this issue, I went looking for unit tests in ruby/ruby, ruby/mspec, and r... gwelch (Grant Welch)

05:23 AM Ruby Feature #11390: Allow symbols starting with numbers

Sameer Deshmukh wrote:
> Currently it is not possible to create a symbol that looks like `:1twothree`.
> ...
The non-quoted symbol format follows the same naming rules as variables (local, instance, class, global), methods, and constan... gwelch (Grant Welch)