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in thread parse lisp style config

I agree. You'd basically have to rewrite the perl interpreter so that can run a copy of itself as child process in a sandbox and only return a safe, sanitized hashref. To quote RFC1925:

(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea.

With enough software engineering, this is certainly possible, at least to a certain extend, but

(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under the +m as they fly overhead.

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