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-rw-r--r--tcl.html.markdown7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tcl.html.markdown b/tcl.html.markdown
index c1cd42ca..9ca32f1e 100644
--- a/tcl.html.markdown
+++ b/tcl.html.markdown
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ set greeting "Hello, $person(name)"
# A namespace holds commands and variables
namespace eval people {
namespace eval person1 {
- set name Neo
+ variable name Neo
}
}
@@ -190,7 +190,10 @@ 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