Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 282 status

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 05:31:16PM +0100, Peter S wrote:
> During experimenting with this, I get a weird error that I don't understand:
>     % proc array {name index} {return "$name\($index)"}
>     % parray foo
>     can't use non-numeric string as operand of "!"

That's just what you get from replacing standard commands like "array".

parray isn't there from beginning, but only gets loaded from Tcl's "::unknown"
procedure. This procedure, however expects [array size UnknownPending] to return
the *size* of an array named UnknownPending, not the string "size(UnknownPending)"

>     "if {![array size UnknownPending]} {