[ruby-core:30802] Re: PATCH: ENV['key'] = non_string

On Jun 17, 2010, at 15:57 , Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:30799] PATCH: ENV['key'] = non_string"
>    on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:52:55 +0900, Ryan Davis <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> |Can I commit this please? This drives me bonkers.
> 
> Can you elaborate?  Basically "fail early" is a good principle.
> I see no good reason to make
> 
>  ENV["foo"] = Object.new

Sure:

ENV["foo"] = 1

or:

ENV["foo"] = true

I actually use those a fair amount. I also played with this today:

def ENV.method_missing msg, *args
  msg = msg.to_s
  if msg =~ /=$/ then
    self[msg[0..-2]] = args.first.to_s
  else
    self[msg]
  end
end

Changes:

ENV["GEM_HOME"] = ENV["GEM_PATH"] = dir

into:

ENV.GEM_HOME = ENV.GEM_PATH = dir

The #to_s inside the setter changes:

ENV["BOOL"] = "1"

into:

ENV.BOOL = 1