Re: [tcljava-user] Boolean strings not managed

[Mo D. <md...@un...>]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:27:29 +0200
Kristoffer Lawson <se...@fi...> wrote:

> % set a true
> true
> % if {! $a} {puts foo}
> can't use non-numeric string as operand of "!"
> 
> Now, I realise that this was fixed relatively late in Tcl, but is  
> there any hope of this kind of thing getting done in Jacl?

These booleans are already implemented in the CVS version of Jacl.
The CVS version also has support for the string "ne" and "eq" operators
in expr parsing.

> general, is Jacl still planning to be compatible with later versions  
> than 8.0?

Yes, it is. There is the new 'lset' command that has not yet been
implemented, but almost all the Tcl 8.4 features work in Jacl.
The regexp package is the only area with large differences.

cheers
Mo DeJong