On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> *) Embedding
> *) Threads
> *) Various platform "quirks". (And no I'm not even talking about VMS or
> Windows...)
Acatualy, win32 seems fairly close to POSIX norms with the environment.
(Except that the names are case-insensitive (forced-uppercase,
utf16-wise), though values are utf16 arbitrary data (OS-ignored, except
for os-defined variables.)
Also, I don't see how embeding and threading effect the environment. The
OS should take care of locking if you use right primitivies. For embedded
interpreters, I should think they should get their own %ENV.
-=- James Mastros
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anyway)." -=- Alan Cox
