On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Luis Lavena <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Jim Weirich <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have received a suggestion to remove checking the environment for the >> value of a task argument. For example, given: >> >> task :sample, [:path] do |task, args| >> puts args.path >> end >> >> will print out the value of the environment variable PATH. The requester >> comments that the feature can cause bugs that are difficult to track down. >> Upon reviewing his comment, I tend to agree with him. >> >> So, is anyone taking advantage of this feature? Would anyone be upset if we >> remove it? >> > > Not from here ;-) > > Sounds good for me.
I suppose if you want to keep the fluffy interface, you could do something like args.env.path. It would be familiar to the Rails & Rack users. But, I can live with just removing it, too. Regards, Dan _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
