On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:51:24AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> This might initially work for read-only access/testing, but in 
> the long run I suspect that %*ENV will be tied directly to the 
> C putenv/getenv calls or their Parrot/other equivalents.
> Assigning to %*ENV should change the environment for any scripts
> invoked from Perl 6.  

Right, I was just saying that to rgs on #perl6. :)

> (This also eliminates the runtime overhead of "populating %*ENV"
> when it's not going to be used by a particular script.)

Yup.  This may very well be our first example of an IType. 

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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