Re: Tcl/Tk Documentation > TclCmd > global : "info locals" issue

Don Porter escreveu:
Werner Wenzel wrote:
The official Tcl documentation (8.5.4) reads:

global varname ?varname ...?

DESCRIPTION
This command has no effect unless executed in the context of a proc body. ...

What am I not understanding?

Yikes!

Seems that documentation never got an update for Tcl 8.0 about 12 years
ago. Please report this in the Tracker so there's some hope someone
will act on it.

Don,

This post of yours triggered a discussion about "regression testing of documentation" in this shop...

We're still debating :-D
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