Re: Syntax, expressiveness and the beauty of Tcl

suchenwi wrote:

One interesting effect could be e.g
expr {sin($x) = sin($x)}
where as an lvalue, sin() would be an array, while on the right side
it's still the good old sine function...

Wow! This would be fun! You can show this around to non-Tcl'ers and get
additional 1000 points on the geek-scale...

But seriously: I do not think, that this would be such a bad effect. You can
write

set sin($x) [expr sin($x)]

today, which is also a little bit strange...

Stephan
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