Proposal: System.Environment.getEnv should return Maybe

[Adam Foltzer]

+1, particularly having run into this about 20 minutes ago.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's awkward and surprising how getEnv throws an exception when an env
> var is not set, since it's very common for env vars to be optional,
> and it's not convenient to catch exceptions in haskell (I have to look
> up Control.Exception every time, and then add LANGUAGE
> ScopedTypeVariables).  I wind up using 'fmap lookup k
> Environment.getEnvironment' instead.
>
> So I propose a function: lookupEnv :: String -> IO (Maybe String)
>
> Then getEnv can be deprecated and eventually removed.  Or maybe not if
> people want to argue the current getEnv is useful and deprecation
> warnings would be too annoying.
>
> Yeah, it's a trivial thing, but it's nice to sand off some of these rough
> edges.
>
> Discussion: 2 weeks, March 7
>
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