Tcl (was Re: [oclug] UNIX philosophy (was Re: vim rulez...))

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:09:17PM -0400, Jon Earle wrote:
> Last version of Tcl/Tk I used was 8.0.  It didn't have a real array
> construct (it's version of "arrays" is like C structs) and Tk had no table
> widget.  This meant building tables of data using Tcl/Tk was _really_
> ugly!
> 
> Has this changed in recent versions?

    Not that I know of. Arrays are done like in Awk really. 

    set array1[$index] = $value

    set array2[$index1_$index2] = $value

    They're associative arrays, and by putting two values together you can
simulate multi-dimensional arrays. It's a little ugly but it works. 

    And yes, Tcl has "caught up" so to speak with Perl and Python in the
bytecode arena, so it's faster now. It's a nice language overall. I'm told
that incrTcl is pretty much like Java in its syntax. I'm primarily interested
in Tcl purely for Expect though.

    Mike

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