D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 10 21:30:42 PDT 2014


On 10/10/2014 9:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/10/14, 7:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 10/10/2014 5:45 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>> I still don't understand why wouldn't we use environment variables for
>>> what they've been created for, it's foolish :-)
>>
>> Because using environment variables to tune program X will also affect
>> programs A-Z.
>
> Nope. Try this at your Unix command prompt:
>
> echo $CRAP
> CRAP=hello echo $CRAP
> CRAP=world echo $CRAP

Windows doesn't work like that.



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