RE: [tcltk-perl] Drop listify [PATCH]

[Konovalov, V. <vko...@sp...>]

> > 1. it could be reasonable to sometimes make reverse
> > subtitution of parameters after getting result of Tcl
> > calculation. May be in subroutine with slightly different
> > name (wcall?)
> >
> > it is needed for, say, $widget->cget('-textvariable') to
> > return a reference scalar and not a name like _SCALAR_0xXXXXXX
> >
> Yes, it would be nice to be able to round trip these
> values better.  I think the first run would be to clean
> up how the module creates commands and vars in Tcl (use
> a ::perl namespace, where we can also create our own
> stuff like ::perl::eval).  Later on we could look into

this looks like this is robust enough way...

> creating our own object type in Tcl to wrap Perl SVs, so
> we never lose touch either way.

but in this case we'll lose compatibility with current version of Tcl/Tk,
8.4.x, which do not have such object type...


> > 2. I see it very useful for DEBUGging purposes to have a
> > possibility to track what exactly list passed to "icall" and
> > what returned from it. This helps in developing perlTk
> > compatibility subroutines...
> 
> This is just another couple of print statements cased on
> DEBUG, no?

yes, only that, and I, while I use those, I did not even inserted those into
CVS because those are so easy and obvious, so anyone who needs them just add
"print" statements and go...


Best regards,
Vadim.