[Richard Suchenwirth] - Here's a first approximation of making Tcl simulate LISP - there are subtle differences yet to solve, e.g. the $x formulation below - but build on it, and enjoy! The wrapper proc is called, like in LISP, progn ("evaluate the following sequentially, and return the n-th(=last) result"). It takes care of paren-to-brace mapping, and then does that: proc progn body { regsub -all {;[^\n]*\n} $body \n body set body [string map {( \{ ) "\} "} $body] foreach cmd $body { set _ [uplevel 1 $cmd] } set _ } # Setting up Polish-style arithmetic prefix operators... foreach op {+ - * /} { proc $op args [string map [list @op@ $op] {expr [join $args @op@]}] } # Some vocabulary exercises... interp alias {} defun {} proc interp alias {} setq {} set # Now testing... set res [progn { ;; LISPish comments, removed before bracing (defun sq (x) (* $x $x)) (setq y 3) (sq $y) }] puts $res,y:$y ---- [Tcl and LISP] - [Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming]