Version 7 of When you ask questions about eggdrop on The Tclers' Chat

Updated 2008-07-09 13:15:42 by LV

Daily, someone drops in on the Tcl'ers chat to ask a question about Eggdrop. The person typically thinks it's a question about Tcl, because that's what he's been told. It's really about Eggdrop, though; as a consequence, the usual Chat crowd, which generally is helpful to a fault, goes silent, in recognition of its own ignorance. No one's upset, contemptuous, or dismissive; we just don't know what better to do.

The one thing that is better to do is to read the Wiki page on Eggdrop, and note especially that, as is written there, "try #eggtcl on efnet and/or #tcl on quakenet."

Is this Tcl the same as Eggdrop's Tcl? Yes; however, Eggdrop Tcl builds in special commands not known outside Eggdrop. Good Tcl programmers, therefore, can help with questions about syntax in Eggdrop Tcl, but often not about semantics.

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