From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-01-04T08:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ENV.clear

> Thinking about it further, in this case I really want ENV to
> respond
> to "replace" rather than "clear".  Currently (ie. in 1.6.8) it does
> not.  I would argue that ENV.replace is *much* less likely to be
> unintentional than ENV.clear because although one rarely wants to
> delete the environment entirely (eg. do you *ever* want an empty
> PATH?) it is often sensible to reset it to some fixed value.
> 
> Convinced?


*I'm* not. Well, actually I'm not convinced that #clear is
unintentional.  The decision to not even have it in the class
somewhat astounded me.  

I make a lot of typos and thinkos, but typing "clear" when I meant to
type or think something else I can't say I've EVER done.


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