>  Tip 278 apparently breaks quite a bit of itcl's testsuite. The feature 
>  that causes some mayhem is the fact that fully qualified variable names 
>  bypass the special resolvers that itcl sets in place.
[...]

How many tests fail? Lately I recognized that 3 tests fail anyway with Tcl8.5a4 - which were
 running through under 8.4. This happens already without TIP #278 implementation.
Do you have a full implementation of the TIP finished? If you have and it goes in the core, 
I will look at the Itcl issues. Currently I am not quite sure about how and to which extend 
the Itcl variable resolvers are affected...

>  My questions to itcl devels:
>  (1) is the breakage I am seeing fundamental, or just a problem with the 
>  testsuite?

Would be easier if I know what breakage we're talking about ;-). Could you post the test out
put for the ones that failed?

>  (2) if fundamental, what would it take to fix things? Would this cause a 
>  major breakage all over the place?

I think the var resolver of Itcl can be adjusted if necessary... But I didn't dive into that
 yet, so I can not be very precise about it. Anyway, thank you for the information.


Eckhard


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