Taintedness refers to a default lack of trust in a value that was obtained from
an unknown source. (Typically user input of some kind.)
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/taint.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking
-Rob
On Oct 7, 2012, at 9:54 PM, John Merlino wrote:
> I was reading this:
>
> "these methods allocate a new instance of the class of the object on
> which they are invoked. They then copy all the instance variables and
> the taintedness of the receiver object to the newly allocated object."
>
> What does it mean "taintedness"?
>
> thanks for response
>
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