Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl_Eval() is **NOT** deprecated!

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

2013/3/7 Donald G Porter <don...@ni...>:
>
> Rewrite to avoid calling it for performance or other reasons if you
> wish, but do not label it deprecated.

>From Eval.3:

>Note: for backward compatibility with versions before
>Tcl 8.0, \fBTcl_Eval\fR copies the value result in \fIinterp\fR to
>\fIinterp->result\fR (use is deprecated) where it can be accessed directly.
> This makes \fBTcl_Eval\fR somewhat slower than \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR, which
>does not do the copy.
>.PP
>\fBTcl_EvalEx\fR is an extended version of \fBTcl_Eval\fR that takes
>additional arguments \fInumBytes\fR and \fIflags\fR.  For the
>efficiency reason given above, \fBTcl_EvalEx\fR is generally preferred
>over \fBTcl_Eval\fR.

So, you are right that Tcl_Eval is not deprecated, but still,
Tcl_EvalEx is prefered.

Regards,
       Jan Nijtmans