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Donal K. Fellows wrote:
| Kevin Kenny wrote:
|>  I would presume that the thing would be implemented as an extensible
|>  ensemble.  No need to have everything in the Core (although base64
|>  probably needs to be there, it's used in too many other places that
|>  the Core depends on).  We don't need to have all the bells and whistles
|>  as long as we've provided a framework for extensions to implement them.
|
| Agreed. The way I read the TIP is that the formats are actually
| sub-sub-commands. Plugging in new ones will just be a matter of creating
| commands in the right namespace. (Probably.)

Exactly. [binary encode] is a map ensemble with commands in
tcl::binary::encode. Its just like [info] and all the other core ensembles.

Pat Thoyts
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