"Arthur A. Gleckler" <xxxxxx@speechcode.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
> <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Besides, it seems that MS Windows supports environment variables,
>     and surely all Unixes do. The systems you have in mind must be
>     rather obscure then?
>
> Tiny embedded systems, for example. Mostly environment variables just
> feel like something that should be outside the scope of Scheme specs.

To be honest I don't see a problem second-classing tiny embedded systems
when it comes to this auxiliary feature.

If anyone knows a clean solution then please tell, but I can't see a
good solution that involves a Scheme interface and doesn't have the
problem with using hash table operations before and after a change to
the salt value.  From what I can tell it's intrinsically something that
needs to happen during/before process initialization, and environment
variables seem to be the best thing we have for that.

Taylan