Re: A question about syntax of the if statement.

I'd like to hear how he happend upon Tcl/Tk.

Cameron Laird wrote:
In article <3djbv3-3i6.ln1@xxxxxxxxx>, Cameron Laird <claird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1159926862.163581.168610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
George <grgoffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Howdy,

I just build tcl/tk and am looking over a tutorial on the language. I
have a question about syntax and can't tell if "my" installation is
broken or there "really" is a bug.
.
.
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By Tcl parsing (lexification), the latter looks like *two* commands,
if $something {doit}
and
else {doother}
rather than the single if-else you almost certainly intend.

George wants to express his thanks to all the people who wrote to
help him understand that Tcl's [if] is not like the if in other
languages, BUT he's too courteous to risk polluting Usenet-space
with low-content thankyous. How can we make him work it off? Read
through <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/660 > and make suggestions for its
improvement? Describe how he happened on Tcl/Tk? Promise to help
edit the newly-revised tutorials (is the reference in <URL:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1304 >?).

.

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