Re: Syntax, expressiveness and the beauty of Tcl

I though assignment is optional, so:
set result [: 2+2]
would be a more interesting example.

It works this way also, but my point was to be able to write

: x=2+2

However, expressions specified
this way will be early evaluated by the Tcl parser. The speed advantage
of braced expressions (if they contain substitutions) gets lost. One
would better write
: x = {$y+$z}

This does not work with my example, the result then is the string inside the
braces. But I did not intend to give a full blown implementation. I just
played around a little.

Regards
Stephan
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