What: Frink
Where: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Frink/
ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/frink-2.1.5.tar.gz
Description: Program to prettify (like the indent command) your Tcl/Tk
program. Frink can format, minimize and/or obfuscate your Tcl code.
It can take some forms of your code and convert it to use message
catalogs (used for internationalization). It applies a variety
of heuristics to the code to try to detect possible errors.
Supports only vanilla tcl - not extensions such as tclX, itcl, etc.
Does however recognize namesapce and interp commands.
Check the first URL on a regular basis for updates.
Does not permit commercial use.
Updated: 06/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected] [Lindsay F. Marshall]Author is Lindsay Marshall.
See also "What debugging tools are available to a Tcl programmer" and this [L1 ] paragraph on (other) tools that do static syntax analysis.
Frink makes a brief appearance in a UnixReview.com column in April 2002 [L2 ].
Be very careful using frink on your source code. Double check the frink results against the original source. It messes up your code every once and a while.