On 17 August 2016 at 03:26, Carter Schonwald wrote:

I like your suggestion, sounds good to me. The delete semantic always seemed like a gotcha rather than a feature

Just in case someone is depending on that behaviour though, would it be better to deprecate this function and define a new one with the non-delete semantics?

On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

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Hello all,

I wanted to bring this bug to the attention of the CLC

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12494#ticket

I propose that we change 'setEnv k ""' to set the environment variable to an empty string, rather than delete the environment variable. The existing behavior was motivated by a Windows "quirk" that actually doesn't exist (details in ticket.)

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The downside to that option is that it takes us to a less optimal name for all time, and the state of things is much more confusing to users in the interim. Normally I'm the one to advocate for the ridiculously cautious plan. ;) Here, I'd actually be curious to see if we can actually find code on hackage using the current behavior. -Edward On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:

On 17 August 2016 at 03:26, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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I like your suggestion, sounds good to me. The delete semantic always seemed like a gotcha rather than a feature

Just in case someone is depending on that behaviour though, would it be better to deprecate this function and define a new one with the non-delete semantics?

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On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

...

Hello all,

I wanted to bring this bug to the attention of the CLC

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12494#ticket

I propose that we change 'setEnv k ""' to set the environment variable to an empty string, rather than delete the environment variable. The existing behavior was motivated by a Windows "quirk" that actually doesn't exist (details in ticket.)

Thanks, Edward _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libraries

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