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Code may be data but data isn't code.
by civilized 5y ago
Code may be data but data isn't code.
- Banana699 5y agoData is code that prints/evaluates to itself.
- zzo38computer 5y agoIn some programming languages (such as PostScript, where evaluating as itself vs being executed, is a flag separate from the value's type, and can be changed by the cvlit and cvx operators), it is.
- civilized 5y agoThe higher-ups might be unhappy if you use that excuse after committing a gigabyte of customer data.