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Re: simple redraft Re: [exslt] Environment Variable Retrieval Spec
by John L. Clark other posts by this author
Feb 17 2006 7:25PM messages near this date
Re: simple redraft Re: [exslt] Environment Variable Retrieval Spec | Re: simple redraft Re: [exslt] Environment Variable Retrieval Spec
& XSLT On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:24:34AM +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>  One thought has occurred to me. Environment variables are usually
>  define in upper case, but not all O/Ss are case sensitive
>   - Linux certainly is, but Windows is not.
>  
>  Should we change the specification to say that the local name should
>  be upper-cased to determine the name of the environment variable?

Well, that would exclude referencing environment variables with
lower-case letters on case sensitive systems.  Should we just say that
implementations on case insensitive systems ought to compare the local
name to the environment variable name in a case insensitive manner?

Take care,

    John L. Clark
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