Version 3 of Feb 2023 Tcl Meetup notes

Updated 2023-02-14 14:09:12 by pooryorick

tcl meetup 2024-02-14 (tuesday 14th february 2023 1800 utc)

topics

unicode support
unicode in tcl 9 , (apn).
should we skip 8.7 ?
who in particularly needs 8.7 as opposed to 9.0, and why?
implications of tip 346
conflict with tip 601.
tip 346 not marked as provisional for tcl 8.7
why would -strict be appropriate for tcl 9, given the existence of tip 601?
implications of tip 481
sample extension .
Extension go BOOM.
(am: if we run out of material to discuss only) embedding tcl and tk in a program, especially what to do with the start-up scripts
this is a topic that arises from my fortran/tcl/tk interfacing, so it may be rather specialised ;).