Re: [MacPerl] empty %ENV (fwd)

[mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.)]

According to Matthias Ulrich Neeracher:
> Neil Kandalgaonkar <njk@odyssee.net> writes:
> >mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.):
> >> The environment
> >>variables never show up until you just start using them.
> >
> >Thanks for the prompt help.
> >
> >I must say though, that is a major gotcha. Not a complaint (go get your
> >Ph.D, Matthias) but just an observation. Some of the scripts out there,
> >including Sandra Silcot's libraries (1995), try to list %ENV in the normal
> >fashion. So is this an aberration with later versions of MacPerl?
> 
> It's an aberration in 5.002 based versions of MacPerl and will no longer occur
> in the next release (I didn;t fix it because it was a core bug).

I never considered it a bug - sort of a conservation of
energy sub-rule.  Hey!  I know!  It's one of those "just in
time" things they keep talking about!  ;-)  Yeah!  That's
the ticket!

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