Based on brief discussion in #tcl on IRC (27 Nov, 2011 (TZ is PST)):

  19:41 <@ijchain> <stu> colin: You can't get rid of snit because too many things use it.
  19:41 <@ijchain> <stu> Don't be snit snotty! :p
  19:42 <@ijchain> <stu> And some things use stooop. Wow, haven't heard that name in a while.
  19:45 <@ijchain> <colin> I can get rid of snit by rewriting them all.
  19:45 <@ijchain> <colin> Give me a week and a kg of coffee
  19:46 <@ijchain> <stu> heh
  19:46 <@ijchain> <stu> The plaid LANs of lice and hens.  (there may be a joke in there somewhere)
  19:47 <@ijchain> <stu> "The best ..."
  19:49 <@ijchain> <colin> what's more of a hassle is the tcllib stuff which invents its own OO system, more or less copypasta'd from other tcllib stuff.
  19:49 <@ijchain> <colin> Yes, I'm looking at you, http.tcl
  19:50  * ijchain steveboz has left
  19:50 <@ijchain> <kbk> http.tcl 's object system is ancient - it was the source of a lot of that copypasta
  19:51 <@ijchain> <kbk> mmm, copypasta with a tasty source - give me a nice chianti with it, and an Italian salad and some crusty bread...
  19:51 <@ijchain> <stu> The best glazed hams, with rice and peas.
  19:51 < yukonbob> there's next years' (and the year thereafter, and thereafter, and thereafter) GSoC projects.
  19:52 < yukonbob> convert ad hoc OO to New Hotness.

[APN] Any such change would mean new tcllib releases of those modules would not support older Tcl versions, certainly not 8.4- and not 8.5 either since that would require a binary extension.

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