[GPS]: I wanted to fetch integers from an array of [Tcl_Obj]. I didn't want to have a massive number of '''Tcl_GetIntFromObj''' polluting the flow of code. So, I came up with this solution: ---- /* REVISION 231 */ #include #ifndef _GET_INTS_FROM_OBJS_C #define _GET_INTS_FROM_OBJS_C int get_ints_from_objs(Tcl_Interp *interp, Tcl_Obj *CONST objv[], int i, int end, ...) { va_list va; va_start(va, end); for (; i < end; ++i) { int *i_ptr = va_arg (va, int *); if (TCL_OK != Tcl_GetIntFromObj(interp, objv[i], i_ptr)) { va_end(va); return TCL_ERROR; } } va_end(va); return TCL_OK; } #endif /* _GET_INTS_FROM_OBJS_C */ ---- Example usage: int x1, y1, x2, y2; if (TCL_OK != get_ints_from_objs(interp, objv, 3, 7, &x1, &y1, &x2, &y2)) { return TCL_ERROR; } ---- [DKF]: Neat. Here are some ideas to take what you've done and make it even cooler (but not much; you've got nice work there.) * You might want to add some extra information to the ErrorInfo so as to state the index that failed. * You might want to do a variant that pulls from a List object and which does bounds-checking. * You might want to allow a value to be skipped by having that result pointer being NULL.