Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl 9 Wart Removal List

[Martin L. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi William,

IMHO …
… unset should still complain on not existent variables, like most other command accessing missing variables.
… glob should stop complaining and return an empty list, except a given directory doesn't exist.
… unload should keep complaining, because it's explicitly called to unload specific libraries and a failure while unloading should be reported. If not of any interest the unload call could be catched.

But I think you're right in asking for the removal of those -nocomplain options! There is always the possibility to catch a probably invalid command evaluation!

Best regards and a nice Sunday,

Martin

------- Original message -------
> From: Duquette, William H (318K) <wil...@jp...>
> To: bri...@ea...
> Cc: tcl...@li...
> Sent: 17/11/'12,  15:03
> 
> On 11/16/12 2:48 PM, "Brian Griffin" <bri...@ea...> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Duquette, William H (318K) wrote:
>> 
>>> [glob -nocomplain], [unset -nocomplain]
>>> Remove the -nocomplain options from these commands; they simply shouldn't complain.
>>> 
>> Almost agree.  I think there should be a -complain option in the few cases where it could be useful, but the default should be -nocomplain.
>> 
> The three -nocomplain options I noticed yesterday were on [glob], [unset], and [unload].  For [unload], I agree that "-complain" could be useful (provided that, contra Joe English, [unload] should be retained).  For [glob] and [unset], I can't see why a "-complain" option would be useful.
> 
> 
>> -Brian



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