Re: Syntax, expressiveness and the beauty of Tcl

slebetman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Can't your not be done with "proc = {..." also? This would work also with
+, -, * and so on. Some kind of operator-"overloading".

Aliases are faster since there is no "call"ing involved.

Okay, I was not aware of that.

In fact I used
to do it with proc before I found out about aliases.

Looks like there can be done many funny things with that.

Besides, making Tcl do "strange" things can be fun.

Right, and sometimes I really love playing around with that.

Here's my own early attempt to please you:

I will have a closer look into that, looks cool to me. Does your example
imply that the variable must exist before it can be used that way? This
would be very C-like, more that I expected... ;-)

Stephan

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