Please, could you remove the part of the mail you are not responding to
and just keep the relevant part?
>> Whatever the features and syntax, you can always shoot yourself in the
>> foot.
>
> I disagree
Hmmm... I have succeeded in shotting myself in the foot with possibly
every feature of every language I have used. This is called experience...
in the end you do know how NOT to do things:-)
> - some concepts are more robust, other less.
Sure. The use-case under discussion is about ONE session variable holding
an expensive to compute security status which can be consulted by other
functions. I think that probably one can have it right with both
approaches, even if it is on the second try...
--
Fabien.