Re: to ENV or not to ENV

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On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:30 +0100, Martin Moss wrote:
> 1) using %ENV
> 2) setting using our own subclass of Apache::Request's
> pnotes or notes methods

I like pnotes because it's guaranteed to get cleared at the end of the
request.

Also, anything you can do via %ENV can be done via any perl global, like
%My::Shared::Var.

> I also believe there
> has been some discussion on this list a while ago,
> which came out in favour of not using %ENV at all if
> it can be helped.... But I can't remember why this was
> a bad thing...?

There are more hoops to jump through for setting %ENV, since those are
actual environment variables.  Might be a problem with threads too, but
I'm not sure about that.

- Perrin