Miscellaneous Changes: ENV

Technical documentation
03/07/2008

General Overview

The MRI implementation of the ENV is bizarre. It is a custom object that implements a large set of the Hash instance methods, but it is not Hash object.

The Sapphire implementation will make it a special instance of Hash, with getter and setter methods redefined as necessary with getenv() and setenv(), or their Windows equivalent.

Specific changes

  • Removed Windows 95/98/ME/DOS code.
  • Removed unused or deprecated code.
  • TODO: Convert ENV to a special instance of Hash instead of merely simulating one.

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