On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:50:02AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Please, let us agree to use the traditional name of "environment variables" in > the docs, and not re-introduce its bastardized cousin, which hurts my ears. > Thanks. I think they are different things. An "environment variable" is something in %*ENV. An "environmental variable" is a variable which was declared with env $foo, and which can be seen by callers.
I rather dislike this naming scheme, but can't think of a better one. -=- James Mastros
