Re: [Help-smalltalk] How to access environment variables ?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/28/2011 03:42 PM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
>       gst>  Smalltalk getenv: 'SHELL'
>       '/bin/bash'
>       gst>
>
> I didn't think I needed it when I was doing the environ statement.

You didn't need it for "Smalltalk environ" indeed.  But here,

> which is different from
>
>       gst>   Smalltalk environ:
>
> the last one needing a '.' to make it a complete statement or an object.

adding a "." would only make a syntax error, because you need an 
argument after "environ:", just like you had one above "getenv:".

Tip: if you think it's complicated, you aren't understanding it. :)

Paolo