Version 3 of binding

Updated 2004-08-24 17:37:42 by cl

In Tcl/Tk dicsussions, binding most often refers the act of associating, with the bind command (or the bind subcommand of a canvas), a Tk event with a bindtag and a script (most often a single command). Such bindings can also be made to fileevents, and, in specialized extensions, to reception of data from data managers, COM events, ...


There is also a more generic meaning in the theory of computer languages:

Binding
(verb) is the act of resolving a name to a value in some scope.
A Binding
(noun) is a record of such a resolution. The cmdName Tcl_Obj is a Binding.

Tcl has several different ways to bind names which are canvassed in scope.


Shouldn't binding (verb) rather be the act of creating a binding (noun), than the act of resolving it?


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