Re: A subst-antial question


Neil Madden wrote:
An alternative, in Tcl 8.5 (or 8.4 with the dict package), would be to
not perform the substitutions locally, but instead to snapshot the
environment of the script as a dict, and then send that along with the
code (as a kind of closure) to be evaluated remotely using [dict with]:

Thanks, Neil. [dict] is something I'm not very familiar with, and now
I have motivation to look into it.

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