[IronPython] Trying to set methods on "built-in" classes failssilently

[Keith J. Farmer]

Standard practice or not, this begs the question of whether it should be allowed at all.  I would argue against it:
* security issue
* silent fails mask unexpected behavior
 
However, adding *new* members doesn't, to my knowledge, present a security risk.  As a comparison, MSH allows new members and aliases to be overlayed on top of existing types, but I don't know whether or not it chokes when attempting to override an existing member.  It may be worthwhile to agree with the MSH team on a strategy.

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From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com on behalf of Giles Thomas
Sent: Thu 1/12/2006 1:35 PM


I suspect it's not something anyone's likely to come across often, but
if you try to rebind a method on a built-in class,  no exception will be
thrown but it will not be changed.  An example:


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