In that case I'd recommend making it a function of some sort, not global
variables, which have bitten us in the past.  In particular, global vars are
complicated to use during start-up as you have to be careful about what order
everything runs in.

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:18:57AM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> Well, I'm hoping to use them or at least the patch level. That made more 
> sense to me then parsing the patchlevel string each time.
> 
> enohp ym morf tnes
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> 
> > On Sep 21, 2017, at 10:03 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2017-09-20 23:37, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> >> Where are the TCL_MAJOR_VERSION, TCL_MINOR_VERSION, & TCL_BUGFIX_VERSION 
> >> set? There are listed as globals in pd-gui.tcl and don't seem to be set on 
> >> mac when running Pd from the command line. I'm trying to check the BUGFIX 
> >> version in order to detect if the buggy 8.5.9 is being used on macOS.
> > 
> > 
> > here they are set to (0,0,0), which is the default in pd-gui.tcl:117ff
> > (for all platforms).
> > since it's nowhere used (neither set nor consumed), despite the comment
> > on top of it, it should probably be removed completely.
> > 
> > gfamsdr
> > IOhannes
> > 
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