Re: [TCLCORE] TIP Roundup

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Joe English wrote:
>>    TIP #210	Add 'tempname' Subcommand to 'file'
> 
> Same as before: change the order of the arguments from
> 
> 	file tempfile ?template? ?namevar?
> to
> 	file tempfile ?namevar? ?template?
> 
> and it's good to go.  As currently specified, it forces callers
> to supply a template if they want to get the filename back.
> One of the main points of the TIP is for Tcl to take care
> of all the hairy platform-specific details of where temp files
> should go; the propsed interface defeats that.

I've revised the TIP to swap those arguments as suggested. (While the
TIP previously allowed template to be blank, that was still messy and
non-obvious!) I've also made it much clearer what the template format
actually is, and I hope that someone can check that I've not messed it
up in the process. Assuming I've not blundered, it's now good to go.

Donal.