• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (8/8) Apr 17 2018 I came across this Tcl advocacy article on Reddit (the article is from
• Phillip (10/18) Apr 18 2018 Hmm interesting I had not thought of it that way. Since Tcl's

=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

I came across this Tcl advocacy article on Reddit (the article is from 
2006):

 
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8cw63d/tcl_the_misunderstood/

"Everything is a string" concept of Tcl reminded me of how D can 
generate code as string. So, Tcl's 'uplevel' is like string mixins. It's 
also similar to how body of 'static if' is inserted into this context.

Ali

Phillip <phillip ptav.ch> writes:

On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 19:39:54 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
 I came across this Tcl advocacy article on Reddit (the article 
 is from 2006):


 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8cw63d/tcl_the_misunderstood/

 "Everything is a string" concept of Tcl reminded me of how D 
 can generate code as string. So, Tcl's 'uplevel' is like string 
 mixins. It's also similar to how body of 'static if' is 
 inserted into this context.

 Ali

Hmm interesting I had not thought of it that way. Since  Tcl's 
Uplevel executes a script in a different stack frame / scope to 
the current executing code in Tcl and returns the result so i 
always thought string mixin's are more of a compile time eval 
rather than Uplevel. Seeing your post and  thinking on it - i can 
see why you made the connection and both are very useful in their 
respective languages.

Since i code in both Tcl and D - nice to see a connection here.

p.