Proposal: Add setEnv/unsetEnv to "base"

[Evan Laforge]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Simon Hengel <sol at typeful.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 08:27:21PM +0200, Gregory Collins wrote:
>> +1 (a no-brainer, in my opinion) --- although you can get rid of
>> unsetEnv if you make setEnv take a "Maybe String", which might be
>> better.
>
> I haven't pointed that out, because it's documented in the Haddock
> comments, but on Windows, setEnv "FOO" "" will remove FOO from the
> environment.  I don't particularly like it, but as my stated goal was to
> provide the exact same behavior on all platforms and there is no way to
> work around this on Windows my implementation does the same thing.

I notice setEnv documents this, but maybe you could add a line to
document why?  Readers are likely to be thinking "that's a dumb
design", at least you can deflect the blame over to windows.