Re: Syntax, expressiveness and the beauty of Tcl

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. :-)

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