<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 18:05, Evan Laforge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qdunkan@gmail.com">qdunkan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So I propose a function: lookupEnv :: String -> IO (Maybe String)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 </div></div><div>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...).</div>
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