Error: getenv cannot be interpreted at compile time

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:56:19PM +0000, Paul via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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> I see, thanks once again :D I don't know why the environment variable isn't
> accessible at compilation (from a terminal) but that's OS business I guess
> rather than D related.

Even if you *could* access it at compile time, you don't necessarily
want to -- for example, if you distribute your program to other users,
they would be stuck with the terminal settings you had while compiling,
rather than adapting to *their* environment at runtime. If your terminal
doesn't match theirs, it would screw up big time. :-)


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