Re: [tcljava-dev] SubstCmd

[Mo D. <mo...@mo...>]

Justin Ryan wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the subst command, in which the java version
> differs from the c version. In the C Tcl:
>
> % set str "Hello\rWorld\r"
> World
> % puts [string length $str]
> 12
> % puts [string length [subst $str] ]
> 12
>
> You can see that the \r stays in the string. While in Jacl:
>
> % set str "Hello\rWorld\r"
> World
> % puts [string length $str]
> 12
> % puts [string length [subst $str] ]
> 10
>   

Justin, thanks for reporting this bug. It has now been fixed in the CVS.

> Is there a reason that so many of the jacl/tcljava classes don't
> define themselves as public classes? If a specific class shouldn't be
> extended then it could be defined as final.
>   
The Jacl implementation assumes that end users are not going to be 
extending classes inside
the tcl.lang package.

cheers
Mo DeJong