Re: Syntax, expressiveness and the beauty of Tcl

On 31 Oct 2006 04:14:54 -0800,
"suchenwi" <richard.suchenwirth-bauersachs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fredderic schrieb:
So adding support for ${{...}} being equivalent to [expr {...}],
might actually make the syntax cleaner and slightly less confusing
than it already is anyhow, by giving it an actual defined meaning.
I'm not sure whether it's cleaner and less confusing.. but
experimenting shows that the dollar parser's bevavior on braces is
surprising anyway:
45 % set x ${{hello world}}
can't read "{hello world": no such variable
So the first brace encountered is taken for closing, independent of
nesting depth?

*nods* That's exactly the point I was making...!


Fredderic
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