On 12 Apr 2006, at 22:56, Peter MacDonald wrote:

>  On April 12, 2006 12:41 pm, Kristoffer Lawson wrote:
> > of Tcl.  An alternative might be to just tie into [unknown].  eg:
> >
> > Yes, that solution is already up on the Wiki and was the inspiration
> > for this. However, unless it is taken as policy for the language,
> > it's really only a kind of mind-game as it will not be adopted much
> > and performance is likely to be abysmal.
> 
>  RIght, I'm guilty of not reading far enough into the tip.   
>  Nevertheless,
>  I was suggesting that although in-core is a good idea for  
>  performance reasons,
>  making Tcl_ExprObj() the handler would still allow backward (albeit  
>  slower)
>  compatibility.  ie.  I can write my application using TIP #266, and  
>  have it
>  include the [unknown] hack if tcl_version != 9.* or whatever to let  
>  it work
>  under 8.3...

Yes, that is true and also adds to the appeal of both 174 and 266.

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