[phobos] review for environment

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Thanks for the response.

Andrei

On 10/27/10 22:05 CDT, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
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>> From: Andrei Alexandrescu<andrei at erdani.com>
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>> Yah, I was referring to opAA.
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> With Posix, you have environment variables stored in a __gshared global.
> Providing a local range on that data isn't a good idea.  Windows provides the
> function GetEnvironmentStrings, which returns a memory block allocated to hold
> all the environment variables.  You must call FreeEnvironmentStrings to free the
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> These are the only ways to iterate variables.  If you want individual variables
> for which you already know the names, there are functions for that, but Lars'
> code implements those through individual functions, not toAA.
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> The only way I could see it done better is to have a type that allows setting of
> the variables when you assign to the AA.  But you still need to copy the data.
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> -Steve
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