Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #293: Argument Expansion with Leading {*}

[Brian G. <bgr...@mo...>]

Miguel Sofer wrote:
>  TIP #293: ARGUMENT EXPANSION WITH LEADING {*} 
> ===============================================
>  COMPATIBILITY 
> ===============
>
>  Note that removing *{expand}* and/or *{}* will break code that users 
>  might already have in production, and so cannot be done in an 8.* 
>  release. They will be removed in Tcl 9.0 though, so user code should 
>  not make use of them in order to ensure that future portability issues 
>  are minimized. 
>   

I'd like to see a build time option to remove the alpha compatibility.  
We don't currently use 8.5, but when we do, I know someone, somewhere 
will start using {expand} and I don't want to have to deal with this 
issue again when transitioning to 9.0.

Thanks,
-Brian