On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 19:39:54 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I came across this Tcl advocacy article on Reddit (the article
is from 2006):
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8cw63d/tcl_the_misunderstood/
"Everything is a string" concept of Tcl reminded me of how D
can generate code as string. So, Tcl's 'uplevel' is like string
mixins. It's also similar to how body of 'static if' is
inserted into this context.
Ali
Hmm interesting I had not thought of it that way. Since Tcl's
Uplevel executes a script in a different stack frame / scope to
the current executing code in Tcl and returns the result so i
always thought string mixin's are more of a compile time eval
rather than Uplevel. Seeing your post and thinking on it - i can
see why you made the connection and both are very useful in their
respective languages.
Since i code in both Tcl and D - nice to see a connection here.
p.
