by Matt Newman - 'DejaNews:'' [L1 ]
It has been a busy week of Tcl 8.1 bug submissions and discussions. Keep those bug reports coming - we all benefit from reaching production stability with Tcl 8.1 ASAP.
Quote of the Week: "how do you want to be irritated beyond belief today?" - Dave LeBlanc (Re: MS Help Files and VC++ 6.0)
- Tcl-URL! is changing format with the help of Daniel and Brent at Scriptics. (See url below for more information) https://www.tcl-lang.org/tclurl/
- Discussion of 8.1 vs 8.0 performance, and why 8.1 is so much slower for character manipulation. Required reading for anyone who has performance-critical applications. (see [L2 ])
- Long discussion on improving the string command interface to more directly support real-world applications. (see [L3 ])
- Bryan Oakley has started what promises to be a long thread entitled "tcl/tk 9.0 - remove the warts! (?)". Lots of discussion about cleaning up the command namespace and the inconsistancies in the [list] command. (see [L4 ])
- Adding major/minor subcommands to new or existing commands (Announcement and Discussion)- breaks out in to an interesting thread on the byte compiler. (see [L5 ])
- Curried commands and lamdas in pure Tcl (Announcement and Discussion) (see [L6 ])
- If you have ever been frustrated by shared libs on HP-UX this patch is a must! (see [L7 ])
- Nice discussion on the many ways of representing complex structured data in Tcl. (see [L8 ])
- What the heck is foo anyway! http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/frames/F/foo.html
- "These are a few of my favorite things" (or do you hear the sound of music?) Please join in and add your favorites to this thread (see [L9 ])
- Tk8.1 strongly unstable with --enable-thread [The Scriptics team are very interested in getting detailed reports on this issue] (see [L10 ])
- Last weeks Tcl-URL! mention of Tcl vs. Perl spawned some interesting debate. (see [L11 ])
- Opening URL's in the browser (Sample Code) (see [L12 ])
- The Dangers of \x (see [L13 ])