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authorIan Bertolacci <ian.bertolacci@gmail.com>2015-10-02 10:15:08 -0600
committerIan Bertolacci <ian.bertolacci@gmail.com>2015-10-02 10:15:08 -0600
commit53790a00980f0ab58efeea5a20c97366daeca401 (patch)
tree60cced8d7b62becacd31b6fb56d9a7c41f1de809 /tcl.html.markdown
parent938720074b8b18a9ada93fb8a040b9ca1a813747 (diff)
parentd5b5b19ca909b573d0b0623604f1ff9369ab04ff (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs
Diffstat (limited to 'tcl.html.markdown')
-rw-r--r--[-rwxr-xr-x]tcl.html.markdown15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tcl.html.markdown b/tcl.html.markdown
index 198f675e..af2911c9 100755..100644
--- a/tcl.html.markdown
+++ b/tcl.html.markdown
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ puts lots\nof\n\n\n\n\n\nnewlines
# A word enclosed in braces is not subject to any special interpretation or
-# substitutions, except that a backslash before a brace is not counted when look#ing for the closing brace
+# substitutions, except that a backslash before a brace is not counted when
+# looking for the closing brace
set somevar {
This is a literal $ sign, and this \} escaped
brace remains uninterpreted
@@ -148,6 +149,9 @@ set greeting "Hello, [set {first name}]"
# To promote the words within a word to individual words of the current
# command, use the expansion operator, "{*}".
+```
+
+```tcl
set {*}{name Neo}
# is equivalent to
@@ -163,7 +167,7 @@ set greeting "Hello, $person(name)"
# A namespace holds commands and variables
namespace eval people {
namespace eval person1 {
- set name Neo
+ variable name Neo
}
}
@@ -189,7 +193,10 @@ set greeting "Hello $people::person1::name"
namespace delete ::
-# Because of name resolution behaviour, it's safer to use the "variable" command to declare or to assign a value to a namespace.
+# Because of name resolution behaviour, it's safer to use the "variable" command to
+# declare or to assign a value to a namespace. If a variable called "name" already
+# exists in the global namespace, using "set" here will assign a value to the global variable
+# instead of creating a new variable in the local namespace.
namespace eval people {
namespace eval person1 {
variable name Neo
@@ -256,7 +263,7 @@ proc greet greeting\ name return\ \"Hello,\ \$name!
proc fold {cmd args} {
set res 0
foreach arg $args {
- set res [cmd $res $arg]
+ set res [$cmd $res $arg]
}
}
fold ::tcl::mathop::* 5 3 3 ;# -> 45