This term is frequently used, but I've not seen it defined
here on the wiki.

When I ([lv]) talk about a ''core'' [tcl] command, I mean a
command that is available after one builds one of the 
source distribution variations of tcl maintained by the [TCT].

A core command of [incr tcl] would be one of the commands from the
source distribution variations of that software as maintained by its
project maintainers.

So if someone comes along and patches tcl for a new command, that new
command - the new ''dict'' dictionary command for example - would be
a core command because it is in the tcl 8.5 alpha source distribution.

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Another use of the term ''core'' is for the memory image that can be produced if a program crashes and ''dumps core''. A core dump can be a valuable help for debugging the crash, if you are an expert in understanding C stack traces and particularly if you configured tcl and the extensions with -enable-symbols .

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[[Also [Tcl Core Team], largely conducted through [tcl-core].]]



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