From: zhoujing@... (TOTO)
Date: 2003-01-02T12:27:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ENV.clear

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in message news:<1041323021.224559.4437.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>...
> Hi,
> 
> In message "ENV.clear"
>     on 02/12/31, TOTO <zhoujing@comp.nus.edu.sg> writes:
> 
> |ENV.clear
> |
> |But it doesn't work, with the error message:
> |../env.rb:56: undefined method `clear' for #<Object:0x401d0d28> (NameError)
> |
> |I thought ENV is a Hash, so clear is defined. However, when I tried:
> |puts ENV.type
> |
> |it turns out ENV is only an Object.
> |
> |
> |However, the Hash function delete(key) is defined for ENV. That is very strange.
> |
> |Can someone experienced tell me what ENV is?
> 
> ENV is an object that provides Hash-like singleton methods to work as
> if it's a String-key hash.
> 
> 							matz.

Thanks, Matz.

In that case, I guess I have to copy the content of ENV to a real Hash. Am I right?