Re: source cmd

Vespasian wrote:

If you source in a file containing procedure 'X' mutliple times, does
the interpreter overwrite the existing 'X' or does it create another
copy of 'X' and just return a pointer to the lastest sourced 'X'

If the new procs are defined in the same namespace as the existing ones,
they are simply overwritten, the old ones are lost. There are no pointers
in Tcl... However, you can save the existing procs before overwriting them
with [rename], so it is possible to restore them later.

HTH
Stephan

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