Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #292: Allow Unquoted Strings in Expressions

[Will D. <wi...@wj...>]

On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Tim Daly, Jr. wrote:

>
> On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:06 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
>>>> But that said, what was wrong with "lexpr"?
>>>
>>> These things come down to matters of taste, I suppose,
>>> but to my eye it looks like a cryptic unixism.
>>
>> Hmm.  Cryptic is bad.  But "=" is less cryptic than "lexpr"?
>> Not really seeing that line of reasoning but that's just me.

I don't see "lexpr" as cryptic--it's an "L-expression", where
the meaning of "L" will be well-defined.  It's certainly no
more cryptic than "lindex"...or than "expr", as far as that
goes.

> Oooh look, a bikeshed!
>
> "lexpr" is easier to google than "=", for what it's worth.

And it's easier to google. ;-)

Will

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> Tim
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