Environment variables in Sitecore configs

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I just recently found out that Sitecore have been supporting using Windows environment variables in config files since Sitecore 8.2 rev. 160729 (Initial).
I was digging around in Sitecore, looking at the ConfigReader for another personal project I was working on, when I noticed these lines:
// ...
reader.ExpandIncludeFiles(ConfigReader.config.DocumentElement, new Hashtable());
reader.LoadAutoIncludeFiles(ConfigReader.config.DocumentElement);
reader.ReplaceGlobalVariables(ConfigReader.config.DocumentElement);
reader.ReplaceEnvironmentVariables(ConfigReader.config.DocumentElement);
// ...
Especially the last line - ReplaceEnvironmentVariables.
As mentioned, this feature was introduced in the intial release of Sitecore 8.2, so actually quite a while ago.
To use environment variables in your config files just write it like $(env:YOUR_CUSTOM_VARIABLE). This is pretty much like how global variables are used, e.g. $(dataFolder).
For example $(env:COMPUTERNAME) would be replaced with the local computer name.
This is quite a neat feature that can be very useful, for example in scenarios like multi-server setups where you might want to use machine-specific settings and the like.