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Tcl-core
Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #157: Argument Expansion with Leading {expand}
by Donald G Porter other posts by this author
Sep 24 2003 2:29PM messages near this date
[TCLCORE] Re: TIP #158: Distinguish the two 'Enter' keys on Windows | Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #157: Argument Expansion with Leading {expand}
>  So we could combine the word-prefix-syntax architecture of {expand}...
>  with the use of the somewhat more eye-pleasing prefix $* .

Sorry, should have included the illustrative examples:

    destroy $*[winfo children .]
    
    button .b $*$stdargs -text $mytext -bd $border
    
    exec $prog $*$opts1 $*[getMoreopts] $file1 $file2
    
| Don Porter          Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division |
| donald.porter@[...].gov             Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
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