APWTCL is an acronym '''A'''rnulf's '''P'''referred '''W'''eb '''TCL'''

This version of [APWTCL] is written in [Java]

[apw] 2012-04-20: To avoid questions:

Yes I know of [Jtcl] and [Jacl] and yes I have had a look into both of them, but my goal is a little bit different, that is why I have started with a new implementation.

I wanted to have a light weight version of Tcl which has the same features as [APWTCL] written in Java to run native on [Android] smart phones. One reason was, that running [APWTCL] under [rhino] a [Javascript] interpreter available there had very big performance problems (have not yet figured out why). So I wanted to have an easy comparable version to be able to figure out the difference between [APWTCL] in a browser and running [APWTCL] native on the same smart phone. And the positive side effect: I am now familiar with [Java], which I did not use before :).

The implementation started mid of March 2012 and is now (2012-04-20) running all my small about 100 tests successful (and additionally the test suite for [wtk], which I have also running for [APWTCL]). The size is also comparable to [APWTCL]. It is about 32.000 LOC which is about the same amount of code.

One feature I have built in is to load even all (Tcl) core commands and command ensembles on demand when needed (similar to autoloading/unknown handling).

The base for that implementation is Tcl 8.6 and Itcl 4.0 including a lot of the snit functionality implemented in Itcl 4.0. When running the [wtk] test suite one can see, that the implemented subset of snit is running unmodified using the following lines at the beginning of the script:


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package require itcl

interp alias {} ::snit::macro {} ::itcl macro
interp alias {} snit::macro {} ::itcl macro
interp alias {} ::snit::type {} ::itcl type
interp alias {} snit::type {} ::itcl type
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