nushell/crates/nu-protocol
JT 4af24363c2
remove let-env, focus on mutating $env (#9574)
# Description

For years, Nushell has used `let-env` to set a single environment
variable. As our work on scoping continued, we refined what it meant for
a variable to be in scope using `let` but never updated how `let-env`
would work. Instead, `let-env` confusingly created mutations to the
command's copy of `$env`.

So, to help fix the mental model and point people to the right way of
thinking about what changing the environment means, this PR removes
`let-env` to encourage people to think of it as updating the command's
environment variable via mutation.

Before:

```
let-env FOO = "BAR"
```

Now:

```
$env.FOO = "BAR"
```

It's also a good reminder that the environment owned by the command is
in the `$env` variable rather than global like it is in other shells.

# User-Facing Changes

BREAKING CHANGE BREAKING CHANGE

This completely removes `let-env FOO = "BAR"` so that we can focus on
`$env.FOO = "BAR"`.

# Tests + Formatting
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# After / Before Submitting
integration scripts to update:
- ✔️
[starship](https://github.com/starship/starship/blob/master/src/init/starship.nu)
- ✔️
[virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/main/src/virtualenv/activation/nushell/activate.nu)
- ✔️
[atuin](https://github.com/ellie/atuin/blob/main/atuin/src/shell/atuin.nu)
(PR: https://github.com/ellie/atuin/pull/1080)
- 
[zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/blob/main/templates/nushell.txt)
(PR: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/pull/587)
- ✔️
[oh-my-posh](https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/blob/main/src/shell/scripts/omp.nu)
(pr: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/pull/4011)
2023-07-01 07:57:51 +12:00
..
src Improve type hovers (#9515) 2023-06-29 05:19:48 +12:00
tests remove let-env, focus on mutating $env (#9574) 2023-07-01 07:57:51 +12:00
Cargo.toml Bump to 0.82.1 dev version (#9543) 2023-06-27 21:33:53 +02:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

nu-protocol

The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.