Re: [TCLCORE] CFV: TIP #696

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Hey,  I thought I was generous, not greedy, allowing 2 billion code values for extensions 😊

 

Jokes aside, I think your comments are similar to @mjanssen’s chat I posted earlier. How about this then, allocate all return codes in the range 0x100 (256) : 0x3FFFFFFF to extensions. All others, including negative values belong to Tcl.

 

Would that be acceptable to all?

 

/Ashok

 

From: Donald Arseneau <as...@tr...> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 10:22 AM
To: tcl...@li...
Subject: Re: [TCLCORE] CFV: TIP #696

 

Sounds fine in principle. But OUCH that is so greedy!  Reserving over 2 billion code values as potentially defined by the language, and condemning programmers to use 10-digit private code values in their programs. I was expecting increasing the defined number from 5 to 16 or 32, but surely no more than 99.

 

If you want to prepare for a future need to dynamically create millions of return codes, how about reserving the BIG numbers for Tcl itself, along with a very small set of numbers near zero?

 

--Donald