#2940 info globals doesn't recognize ::

[harm olthof]

according to help namespace:

"topmost or global namespace has the name ``'' (i.e.,
an empty string), although :: is a synonym"

so you expect:

[info globals ::tcl_platform], to give the
same result as:
[info globals tcl_platform]

However, (win XP, Activestate 8.4.6):

info globals tcl_platform
tcl_platform

info globals ::tcl_platform

(i.e. empty string)

whereas:
(bin) 62 % puts $tcl_version
8.4
(bin) 63 % puts $::tcl_version
8.4

I think the [info globals] command is at least not
consistent with respect to the naming convention and I
would like to file it as a bug.

[miguel sofer]

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I agree that this is a bug; I tend to use [info vars], which
is saner in this respect.

Note to maintainer: [info globals] looks directly into the
global hashtable, without stripping leading '::' first - so,
no wonder that var is not found.

One possible fix is to remove leading ':' (if two or more),
do the search, and then report the result with prepended
leading ':'

[Donal K. Fellows]

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Hmm, correct thing to do is indeed to check if the pattern
starts with '::', and if so strip off the leading colons.
Any other chars can be left alone.

Fixed in HEAD and 8.4 branch