== Environment

The `environment` namespace provides all sorts of facilities to query and manipulate the environment of the current process.

The api should be straight forward, but one oddity that needs to be pointed out is, that environment names
are not case sensitive on windows. The key_traits class implements the proper traits depending on the current system.

Additionally, environment can be lists separated by `:` or `;`; `environment::value` and
`environment::value_view` can be used to iterate those.

Beyond that, the requirements on an environment are a low as possible; 
an environment is either a list of strings or a list of string-pairs. It is however recommended to use the environment types,
as to have the right value comparisons.

To note is the `find_executable` functions, which searches in an environment for an executable.

.example/env.cpp:19-28
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include::../example/env.cpp[tag=current_env]
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== Subprocess environment

The subprocess environment assignment follows the same constraints:

.example/env.cpp:34-42
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include::../example/env.cpp[tag=subprocess_env]
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== Inheriting an environment

The current environment can be obtained by calling `environment::current` which returns
a forward range of `environment::key_value_pair_view`.

.example/env.cpp:48-54
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include::../example/env.cpp[tag=vector_env]
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Alternatively you can use a map container for the environment.

.example/env.cpp:61-68
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include::../example/env.cpp[tag=map_env]
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