Re: About Tcl syntax...

Adrian Davis <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
% set myvar {=}{$a + $b}
I accept that there isn't a neat way to implement this facility
without the possibility of breaking some scripts. To me, all of the
"guarantaneed to work" methods are no clearer than using "expr".

I agree on this observation (with emphasis on "neat").

Otoh, tcl-devs didn't really ask whether changing [clock scan ...]
unnecessarily broke more scripts than inevitable, and it surely
broke far more real scripts, than something like e.g. %{$a+$b}
would.

.

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