Re: Syntax, expressiveness and the beauty of Tcl

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Darren New wrote:

Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
I also dislike expr in Tcl, if one has to do lots of math. Especially
that in 99% cases one needs to use additional braces.

I personally find it most annoying when doing some sorts of parsing,
where I have something like

set x [string range $y [expr {$z-1}] [expr {$z+1}]]
instead of something like
set x [string range $y z-1 z+1]

I.e., personally I miss the ability to use the same sort of constant
offsets you can apply to "end" on the other indecies. But that's just a
personal peeve. :-)

Miss no more!

$ tclsh8.5
% set z 3
3
% string range "A string this is." $z-1 $z+4
string

--
-Kaitzschu
s="TCL ";while true;do echo -en "\r$s";s=${s:1:${#s}}${s:0:1};sleep .1;done
.

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