The new std.process is ready for review

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 14:26:22 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:15:05 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev 
> <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 14:02:08 UTC, Steven 
>> Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> If I use $XYZ in a script, and XYZ isn't set, it equates to 
>>> nothing.  When I use getenv, it returns null.  That is the 
>>> behavior I would intuitively expect.
>>
>> I thought well-written scripts should use "set -u"?
>
> I didn't even know about that.  But my point still stands -- if 
> well-written scripts are supposed to use set -u, it should be 
> the default.

Pretty sure it can't be the default due to 
backwards-compatibility reasons.

> Hm... what about something like 
> Environment.throwOnUnsetVariable = true;

That would break with programs using distinct components that 
rely on that setting's value...