Re: [TCLCORE] TIP457 - [eatargs]

[Colin M. <mc...@gm...>]

"Peer" is such a nice word.  Susceptible to so many possible
interpretations.  So many that I would be loathe to use it in the
connection you have, lest I waltz myself into thinking something that was
untrue, or at least unexamined.

Pardon my ignorance, what precisely *did* you mean by it?

Colin

On Mon, 22 May 2017, 22:30 Peter da Silva, <pet...@fl...>
wrote:

> > You mean, I think, easy and preferred but completely *unlike* that of C,
> perhaps?
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> I don’t understand the point you’re making here. Are you misinterpreting
> my comment about Tcl commands implemented in C to be a comment on C syntax?
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> I would also repeat that the proposal does not impact existing procs in
> any way, and doesn’t change any existing use of the proc command. This was
> a long discussed, deliberated, and careful process that carefully avoids
> stepping on the existing proc syntax.
>
> > I see no very useful useful definition of peer, as it applies to procs
> and C, in which proc isn't already a peer of C commands.
>
> Indeed. That’s the problem.
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