[TCLCORE] Re: Procedure/Namespace Behaviour

[Donald G P. <dg...@ca...>]

From: Brent Welch <we...@aj...>
> OK, I was confused about which side of the argument you were on, ...

It doesn't help matters that I keep switching sides... :)

> As for the "history" of this issue, I know that when namespaces were
> first being implemented in Tcl 8.0 that rename did not change the behavior of
> a procedure inside a namespace.  

Armed with that clue, I dove into my limited archives of Tcl sources,
and sure enough in Tcl 8.0b2, [rename] behaves the way Donal wishes it
did.  This was changed between release 8.0b2 and release 8.0p0.  The
ChangeLog doesn't go back that far, but the changes file contains an
entry:

7/30/97 (bug fix) If a procedure is renamed into a different namespace, it
now executes in the context of that namespace. (BL)

So...  Who is BL, and why did they think this was a bug in need of
fixing?

This might also be an opportunity to make observations on the wisdom
of feature changes between the last beta release and the first
official release....

DGP

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