Disable Certain Keywords and/or Operators
For certain embedded usage, it is sometimes necessary to restrict the language to a strict subset of Rhai to prevent usage of certain language features.
Rhai supports surgically disabling a keyword or operator via Engine::disable_symbol
.
use rhai::Engine;
let mut engine = Engine::new();
engine
.disable_symbol("if") // disable the 'if' keyword
.disable_symbol("+="); // disable the '+=' operator
// The following all return parse errors.
engine.compile("let x = if true { 42 } else { 0 };")?;
// ^ 'if' is rejected as a reserved keyword
engine.compile("let x = 40 + 2; x += 1;")?;
// ^ '+=' is not recognized as an operator
// ^ other operators are not affected