[TCLCORE] Re: Procedure/Namespace Behaviour

[Andreas K. <a.k...@we...>]

> 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,

IIRC BL = Brian Lewis	(bytecode compiler)

-- 
So long,
	Andreas Kupries <a.k...@we...>
			<http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/>
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