** Attributes **

   name:   Miscellaneous Tcl procs (Kraus)
   location:   http://mkextensions.sourceforge.net/ 
   Updated:   11/2002
   Contact:   mailto:michael@kraus5.de  (Michael Kraus),  mailto:mmg_kraus@csi.com (Michael Kraus)



** Description **

   mkGeneric:   a collection of Tcl 8 commands that the contact found missing.  Includes a variety of math functions, list functions programming constructs, output options, etc.

   mkClasses:   a Tcl object class and methods mechanism,

   mkTables:   a collection of Tcl scripts that treat lists as if they were 'tables' (a list whose elements are themselves lists)

   mkThreads:   thread support for Tcl/Tk scripts,

   mkWidgets:   megawidget support for Tk, with MDI widget and other goodies.

On 2003-02-19, a bug in the pkgIndex.tcl of mkextensions was reported in the
[Tcl chatroom]:

======
package ifneeded mkGeneric 1.3 [list
         load [file join [set dir] mkGeneric13[info sharedlibextension]]
]
======

Notice that without a backslash after "list", the load command is immediately
executed, and its result stored for ifneeded...

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[NEM] 2003-02-20: There was another bug which cropped up as a result of this
chatroom session. The Mkgeneric_SafeInit function is defined in terms of
itself, making it infinitely recursive:

======c
int Mkgeneric_SafeInit(Tcl_Interp *tI) {
    return Mkgeneric_SafeInit(tI);
}
======

This presumably was supposed to be:

======c
int Mkgeneric_SafeInit(Tcl_Interp *tI) {
    return Mkgeneric_Init(tI);
}
======

Both bugs have been filed on the mkextensions sourceforge page.

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