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> From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:45:50 -0600
> 
> However, now I wonder why we have a facility like exec-path at
> all. Wouldn't the process-environment's PATH be enough?

Because working with a list is much easier than with a single string?