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Neil Van Dyke Wrote:
>I would argue that Posix environment variables are not important enough that should claim the identifier "environ".
Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> environ is a variable, not a function. This means that the only
> practical semantics is that environ is shared among threads.
I understand.
Neil Van Dyke Wrote:
>think that names that don't stomp on the term "environment" (nor "variable" nor "value") would be best.
These functions belong to "system" library on R6RS as I wrote on this SRFI.
I think we can use the term "environment".
By the way, I check other programing languages.
Perl: %ENV(Hash). $ENV{key}
Ruby: ENV(Object). Env[key] ENV.each {|e| }
Python: os.environ. os.environ[key]
PHP: $_ENV.
Java:System#getenv(key) and System#getenv().
C#: using System; Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("key") and
Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables()
I think C#'s aproach is good and easy to understand.
So how about using following names.
R6RS library: system.
(getenv "key") behavior: (get-environment-variable "key").
(environ->alist) behavior: (get-environment-variables).
- These name have different name for different functions.
- They don't use posix prefix.
- They don't use variable name "environ".
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