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This post seems to ramble without much substance.

The best argument, perhaps only valid argument, is lack of an array type. Easy to work around. The rest seems misguided or ridiculous.

>There is no way to know which one of these is the correct form

What? Of course there is.

The author is also calling it mutable global state, and seems to reference an application becoming confused when ENV isn't set. This reads to me, perhaps incorrectly, that the author doesn't understand that envvars aren't and don't behave like shared global variables. That is, changing one won't affect running applications.




To be fair, environment variables are mutable global state across a single shell session.


Howso? A running process won't affect your current env, and changing your current env doesn't affect the running process.




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