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<dpk>cwebber: do you have any input on https://codeberg.org/scheme/r7rs/issues/195 from a capability security perspective (mnw’s first comment)?
<cwebber>Hi dpk!
<dpk>hi :-0
<dpk>:-)
<cwebber>Well r7rs-small is already ocaps unsafe on its own, but can be made ocaps safe by providing a restricted environment without the unsafe things
<cwebber>(ice-9 sandbox) provides eg the fundamentals for doing this in Guile but not everything you would want
<cwebber>This these more powerful dangerous things might be okay in the same sense that one migh
<cwebber>t simply not expose them to a future "safe scheme"
<cwebber>Imo, defining "safe scheme" would be worth working on
<cwebber> https://spritelyproject.org/#oaken
<cwebber>See the last paragraph there
<cwebber>(And of course scheme48 + w7 was designed for this too)
<cwebber>It's a thing on our roadmap we haven't gotten to yet