Re: simple redraft Re: Environment Variable Retrieval Spec

John L. Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:24:34AM +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>   
>> One thought has occurred to me. Environment variables are usually
>> define in upper case, but not all O/Ss are case sensitive
>>  - Linux certainly is, but Windows is not.
>>
>> Should we change the specification to say that the local name should
>> be upper-cased to determine the name of the environment variable?
>>     
>
> Well, that would exclude referencing environment variables with
> lower-case letters on case sensitive systems.  Should we just say that
> implementations on case insensitive systems ought to compare the local
> name to the environment variable name in a case insensitive manner?
>   

I agree.  Colin does raise an important point, but I think the only
really sane thing to do is to make the matching implementation
specific.  Yeah, this isn't the best for compatibility, but I think
there's not really much to be done about it.


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