[TCLCORE] Re: Procedure/Namespace Behaviour

[George H. <ga...@si...>]

In message <200...@po...>, Brent Welch writes:

 : I urge everyone to consider the following test program that sets a namespace
 : variable.  If the procedure is renamed to a different namespace, should it
 : modify the namespace variable in the new namespace, or continue to modify
 : the variable it was originally written to modify?

I like the current behavior. If you crowbar it the other way, how do
you get the current behavior?  As it stands now, you can explicitly
refer to the variable in the old namespace (if you want to hardwire
the procedure to a particular namespace variable).  I think by
renaming the procedure, you've already indicated something about its
portablility.  The other way you anchor the procedure to the
namespace.  

I think Brent's right about working on the real problem which is an
onexit handler.

--gah

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