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minimax on Dec 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tcl the misunderstood (2006)

You have to be similarly careful with shell scripts.

  $ a=ec
  $ b=ho
  $ $a$b "Hello World"

darkarmani on Dec 15, 2012 [–]

Sure, but people don't generally write large programs in shell scripts.

If you want to relegate TCL to short scripts, i guess it's the same as shell scripting, but if you want to use it for more than that this behavior is dangerous.

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