Proposal: System.Environment.getEnv should return Maybe

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 18:05, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I propose a function: lookupEnv :: String -> IO (Maybe String)
>

+1
Maybe if exceptions fit the ecosystem a bit better, but as is getEnv does
not make enormous amounts of sense to me (it's a bit like assuming the
behavior of the C version on a nonexistent variable should be a core dump;
that's taking the nature of unchecked pointers just a bit too literally...).

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