Backwards breaking change for setEnv

[Carter Schonwald]

We could survey folks via Reddit and see.  Anecdotally I think it's been
more of a gotcha for some folks.

On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 August 2016 at 03:26, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > I like your suggestion, sounds good to me.  The delete semantic always
> > seemed like a gotcha rather than a feature
>
> Just in case someone is depending on that behaviour though, would it
> be better to deprecate this function and define a new one with the
> non-delete semantics?
>
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I wanted to bring this bug to the attention of the CLC
> >>
> >>     https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12494#ticket
> >>
> >> I propose that we change 'setEnv k ""' to set the environment
> >> variable to an empty string, rather than delete the environment
> >> variable.  The existing behavior was motivated by a Windows
> >> "quirk" that actually doesn't exist (details in ticket.)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Edward
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