Re: [TCLCORE] Delaying CVF#340 until dec 5 (Re: CFV TIP #340)

[Jan N. <nij...@us...>]

Here is the results of TIP #340 vote (Provided I
interpreterd JE's correctly.

JN: YES
JE: NO

This means the TIP is rejected.
The best guess about the why question is Kevin's remark:

Kevin Kenny wrote:
> I don't think there's any controversy that
> we want to kill Tcl_SetResult -- eventually. It isn't const-
> correct, and can't be made const-correct. But, aside from
> spewing compiler warnings, it's Mostly Harmless. The chief
> reason for wanting to kill it is that it's all tied up in
> the manipulations of interp->result, and we have to wait at
> least another release cycle before we can put paid to them.

The original TIP specification was too simple. The revised one
too complex. I didn't hear any arguments that this TIP was
fundamentally incorrect, so I propose to put back this TIP
and re-examine it again for Tcl 8.7.

Regards,
         Jan Nijtmans