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

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On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:03:09AM -0800, Will Duquette wrote:
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> On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Tim Daly, Jr. wrote:
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> >On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:06 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
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> >>>>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.

Right, we're in violent agreement.  And as Tim said, that's enough
discussion, anyone who doesn't like it can alias it to whatever they
like in their code.
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