Re: brand new to tcl; newbie question

chedderslam wrote:
test seems to be a reserved word for a proc.

No.

"reserved word" is a concept in some languages. It's not part
of Tcl.

Instead of drawing conclusions based on your experiences with other
languages that do not apply, you would be better served to present
what you see, how it differs from what you expect, and then folks
will be able to help you better.

Changing to something
got rid of an error. However, the output is now:
::19493::payload

What does that mean?

We can have no clue with so little context.

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