On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been following this conversation closely, but one thing that I'm still > unclear about is _why_ process.env not a JS object (by new Object > definition, that is). > > There are some obvious guesses, but I'm mostly interested in actual > documentation or historical fact, and not at all interested in opinion or > more guesses - thanks!
Because it's not. It's a front for a bunch of libc functions. It just looks like an object, mostly. Here is the original commit[1]. Before that, process.env was a simple copy of the environment (granted, as a pure JS object). I didn't want to break the interface so I hacked up the thing we have today. [1] https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/b4def48 -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
