<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Robert Vollmert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rvollmert-lists@gmx.net" target="_blank">rvollmert-lists@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- clobbering the environment by prepending to an association list makes me wonder if that’s really what happens when the variable is already defined</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Yes, that does raise flags.<br>

<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The haskell here:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="">    installEnv <span class=""><-</span> getEnvironment <span class="">>>=</span> <span class="">return</span> <span class="">.</span> <span class="">(</span>:<span class="">)</span> <span class="">(</span><span class="">"GOBIN"</span><span class="">,</span> gOBIN<span class="">)</span></div>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">which I'd probably write as<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>    installEnv <span class=""><-</span> <span class="">(</span><span class="">("GOBIN"</span><span class="">,</span> gOBIN<span class="">) :) <$> </span>getEnvironment<span class=""></span><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><span class=""></span><br>

<br>doesn't match the python here:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>    GOBIN <span class="">=</span> <span class="">tempfile</span>.<span class="">gettempdir</span><span class="">(</span><span class="">)</span><div class="">

<span class="">    os</span>.<span class="">environ</span><span class="">[</span><span class="">'GOBIN'</span><span class="">]</span> <span class="">=</span> GOBIN</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">in the sense that the case for a predefined GOBIN in the environment will lead to different results. At least I'll be surprised if otherwise.<br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><span class=""></span>To Matt: have you tested your haskell version? You might want to take a look at System.Posix.Env.putenv.<br></div></div></div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-- Kim-Ee</div>
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