Re: info dicts?

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:

On Mar 15, 11:37 am, Gerhard Reithofer <gerhard.reitho...@tech-
edv.co.at> wrote:

In my understanding is a dictionary just a specific interpretation of a
string stored in a variable, as a list is a specific interpretation of a
string though (consequently EIAS).

Sorry, cannot parse the sentence. Is it a question ? If it is, the
answer is YES.


It was a suspicion ;)


Maybe this could be documented more clear.

The "DICTIONARY VALUES" section of the dict manpage pretty clearly
talks about "interpreting a string as a dictionary". But if you have
an alternate wording that you find clearer, please submit it.

ACK, thanks.

It would have been more clear to me if a dictionaryVariable would have
been called only "varName".

Example from the "list" world:
lappend varName ?value value value ...?
but on the other side this would make it hard to explain:
dict update dictionaryVariable key varName ?key varName ...? body

But I don't want to start a disussion, I'm informed now.

THX
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Gerhard Reithofer
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