Re: simple redraft Re: Environment Variable Retrieval Spec

>>>>> "John" == John L Clark <[email protected]> writes:

    John> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:16:08PM -0700, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
    >> 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.

    John> I've added statements to the specification to this effect.
    John> I've attached the new draft and its HTML view to this email,
    John> for your ongoing review.

    John> With respect to compatibility, I think it's acceptable to
    John> advise users who are interested in portability that they
    John> should craft the function call carefully on case-insensitive
    John> systems.  For example, they can choose to use
    John> `system-property("env:HOME")` instead of
    John> `system-property("env:Home")`, even if both might work on a
    John> particular system.  Of course, this requires them to be
    John> aware of the nuances on their system and on other possible
    John> target systems, but I don't think there's any way for us to
    John> help relieve that.

Whatever happened to this? The system module still does not appear to
have been published.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire