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[Ovid]

--- Michael G Schwern <schwern at pobox.com> wrote:

> One thing I should note, changes to %ENV carry over from process to
> process in
> VMS.  Think of %ENV as being associated with the login, not the
> process.  So
> any changes you make to %ENV should be localized.

We explicitly delete any changes to %ENV in END blocks.  So near the
beginning of TAP::Parser, we have the following:

  $ENV{TAP_VERSION} = $MAX_TAP_VERSION;

  END {

      # For VMS.
      delete $ENV{TAP_VERSION};
  }

Is this not sufficient?

Cheers,
Ovid

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