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Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl 9 Wart Removal List, Rev. 3
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From: Duquette, W. H (318K) <wil...@jp...> - 2012-12-06 20:46:22
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Don, I'll role these into Revision 4 on Monday. A question for you (and the core team/maintainers in general): now that we've got the Wart Removal List, what's the next step for removing warts? Do these kinds of changes need to be TIP'd? Will On 12/6/12 12:35 PM, "Donald G Porter" <don...@ni...> wrote: > >>> This is Revision 3 of the Tcl 9 Wart Removal List. > >Removal of subcommands, increasing predicted controversy: > > * [info cmdcount] > Inaccurate as well as useless! For more than a decade. > > * [info functions] > This is now spelled [info commands tcl::mathfunc::*]. > > * [info patchlevel] > This is now spelled [package present Tcl]. > > * [info tclversion] > You probably really want the patchLevel. See above. > If you think you want this, you're probably thinking > of doing something foolish like treating it as if it > were a floating point value. Taking this away would > improve your code. > > * [info library] > Or remove $::tcl_library. But don't keep both. > > * [info sharedlibextension] > If you need to know the platform, there are better > ways. Never saw a use of this I didn't think could > be better done in other ways. > >-- >| Don Porter Applied and Computational Mathematics Division | >| don...@ni... Information Technology Laboratory | >| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST | >|______________________________________________________________________| > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial >Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support >Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services >Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers >http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d >_______________________________________________ >Tcl-Core mailing list >Tcl...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcl-core |