Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 282 status

[avl <av...@lo...>]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:32:17PM +0000, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2/14/17, 3:24 PM, "avl" <av...@lo...> wrote:
>> weird - and not so much for assigning to  sin(0)+1, but for
>> allowing all kinds of expressions to evaluate to the target
>> variable, *except* direct function-calls. 
> I think it would make more sense for anything that isn’t
> an “lvalue” to be an error. So:
> sin(0)+1 = 1   ;# error
> sin(0) = 1 ;# OK
> sin = 1 ;# OK
> “sin(0)+1” = 1 ;# OK

Sounds reasonable. Not sure, if the parse tree allows easy
recognition of sub-trees that represent parsed quoted strings
with substitutions like in:
  "arr($key)" = 42

> “sin”(0) = 1 ;# OK

What's the supposed meaning for this?