OpenEuphoria

Re: getenv

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail?c?m> May 30, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
>  
> > So is it really that difficult to document the deficient functioning
> > of Windows? 
> > 
> 
> I think this is worse then dumbing down the Linux version. If the language is
> cross-platform then it should do it's best to be truly cross-platform. As a
> developer, I want to know that it runs on Windows therefore it will work on
> Linux. I do not want to have to code all sorts of ifdef's or if platform()
> checks
> all over.

It's true that you want to smooth out a lot of the differences, but at some
point you have to recognize that they're different operating systems, and
that there are probably valid reasons for letting that come through to
the coder.  I'm not sure if this is one of those cases, but it's certainly
a candidate in my book.

Matt