ParTcl – a micro Tcl implementation

Re:ParTcl – a micro Tcl implementation by to3m on Saturday February 18, 2017 @06:44PM (#13677318)

If fixed properly, it would open the door to non-string types - like, you could have a type that's entirely opaque to tcl, just a void * or whatever, accessed only through functions. This might even actually end up being a step up compared to "proper" tcl...

This would push the line count over 600, but I bet it would still come in at less than a nice round 1,000, while making the thing a lot more useful.

(I have a side project that's starting to feel like it might need a scripting language. And I always liked tcl. Must... resist... rabbit holes...)

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Re:ParTcl – a micro Tcl implementation by tyingq on Saturday February 18, 2017 @07:34PM (#13677511)

Probably a rabbit hole, but tcl strings are sort of dual typed.

Normally, they are arrays of unicode, including multibyte.

But tcl offers a keyword "binary" to treat them as arrays of single bytes.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/1181

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