From 0457e352fbab1910fa59596cd77d8c9253ce9f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Havoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:06:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] correct spec's text about empty environment variables

---
 HOCON.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/HOCON.md b/HOCON.md
index f6f36370..c563b0bf 100644
--- a/HOCON.md
+++ b/HOCON.md
@@ -1026,7 +1026,8 @@ environment, for example.
 
 Environment variables are interpreted as follows:
 
- - present and set to empty string: treated as not present
+ - env variables set to the empty string are kept as such (set to
+   empty string, rather than undefined)
  - System.getenv throws SecurityException: treated as not present
  - encoding is handled by Java (System.getenv already returns
    a Unicode string)