On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 10:22, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> > Tcl arrays are associative. Tcl has pretty much 3 data structures:
> >
> > - scalars
> > - lists
> > - arrays (which are associative)
> >
> > The trick is that a list is really just a scalar with whitespace between
> > the elements, unless the element is enclosed by braces, so there's really
> > only two.
>
> Woah, that last part isn't true at all, and is a common misconception
> that leads people to think Tcl isn't up-to-snuff, which isn't true.
>
> Lists are preserved in Tcl as arrays of Tcl_Obj's. If I do the following:
>
> proc makeList {size} {
> set output ""
Is there any difference in initializing output to list at first, or is
there no difference. IOW, should I initialize 'output' to a list object,
or does 'set output ""' just create an untyped object?
set output [list] <--- does this have any affect?
thanks,
--brett
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