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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: continuation of the code orgy
Message-ID: <4482@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 11 Dec 90 08:50:41 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.031550.9454@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1990Dec11.031550.9454@midway.uchicago.edu>, goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
>     paths := getenv("PATH")

$PATH is for *programs*.  Data files do not belong there.
A better approach would be to allow $env substitution in the argument
to getpaths, e.g.
	getpaths("$HOME/lib/foo:$PROJECT/lib", file)

-- 
The Marxists have merely _interpreted_ Marxism in various ways;
the point, however, is to _change_ it.		-- R. Hochhuth.