Tcl 9.0
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Tcl 9.0
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Re: Tcl 9.0
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#3The first major release in 27 years. 64-bit internal structures, so data can be huge. Full unicode with all the funky new emojis. Zip filesystems, etc., etc.
There's lots of new stuff, and some old cruft has been dumped, so some programs may need a few updates, but there's still a high level of compatibility. The page above links to release notes with details of what's in and what's out.
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Re: Tcl 9.0
#5The first major release in 27 years. 64-bit internal structures, so data can be huge. Full unicode with all the funky new emojis. Zip filesystems, etc., etc. There's lots of new stuff, and some old cruft has been dumped, so some programs may need a few updates, but there's still a high level of compatibility. The page above links to release notes with details of what's in and what's out.
Why did they remove tilde '~' as a convenient shortcut for the Home directory?
Re: Tcl 9.0
#6The first major release in 27 years. 64-bit internal structures, so data can be huge. Full unicode with all the funky new emojis. Zip filesystems, etc., etc. There's lots of new stuff, and some old cruft has been dumped, so some programs may need a few updates, but there's still a high level of compatibility. The page above links to release notes with details of what's in and what's out.
Why did they remove tilde '~' as a convenient shortcut for the Home directory?
Tcl Improvement Proposal (TIP) 602[0].
Re: Tcl 9.0
#7The first major release in 27 years. 64-bit internal structures, so data can be huge. Full unicode with all the funky new emojis. Zip filesystems, etc., etc. There's lots of new stuff, and some old cruft has been dumped, so some programs may need a few updates, but there's still a high level of compatibility. The page above links to release notes with details of what's in and what's out.
Why did they remove tilde '~' as a convenient shortcut for the Home directory?
In the long run, special cases like that often turn out to be more trouble than they are worth. If an ordinary file happened to start with '~' it would not be handled correctly. So you either accept or ignore that potential problem, or you have to write extra code to work around it. It's safer to not have such special cases at all.
Re: Tcl 9.0
#8The only time I’ve dealt with Tcl in recent memory was for some MacPorts portfile stuff.
Anybody using it for something else and can speak to why you’d use it today? Genuinely curious; I don’t hate the language but can never bring myself to enjoy it either.
Re: Tcl 9.0
#9The only time I’ve dealt with Tcl in recent memory was for some MacPorts portfile stuff. Anybody using it for something else and can speak to why you’d use it today? Genuinely curious; I don’t hate the language but can never bring myself to enjoy it either.
Eggdrop IRC bots. Even 25 years since I first created one, Eggdrop is still the best and most reliable + flexible IRC bot platform, and comes with native support for Tcl.
Re: Tcl 9.0
#10The only time I’ve dealt with Tcl in recent memory was for some MacPorts portfile stuff. Anybody using it for something else and can speak to why you’d use it today? Genuinely curious; I don’t hate the language but can never bring myself to enjoy it either.
Curious as well. The only time I've seen it used in the wild is Redis' test suite. https://github.com/redis/redis/tree/unstable/tests/integrati...