The automatic conversion of environment variables containing ':' into
arrays seems to be not so great to me. In particular it leads to mystifying
experiences like the following.
[ 1 rocinante ~ ] setenv FOO 'a:b'
[ 2 rocinante ~ ] fish
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> echo $FOO
a b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> tcsh
[ 1 rocinante ~ ] echo $FOO
a:b
[ 2 rocinante ~ ]
>From a practical point of view this means that any URLs inherited from
the environment are mangled. Not to mention that ':' is AFAIK a valid
character in a path (my home directory used to be on SFS, which uses ':').
The only alternative that comes to mind is to special case PATH.
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