Tcl-URL! - 1999/05/10

by Matt Newman - DejaNews: [1]

It has been a busy week of Tcl 8.1 bug submissions and discussions. Keep those bug reports coming - we all benefit from reaching production stability with Tcl 8.1 ASAP.

Quote of the Week: "how do you want to be irritated beyond belief today?" - Dave LeBlanc (Re: MS Help Files and VC++ 6.0)

• Tcl-URL! is changing format with the help of Daniel and Brent at Scriptics. (See url below for more information) http://www.scriptics.com/tclurl
• Discussion of 8.1 vs 8.0 performance, and why 8.1 is so much slower for character manipulation. Required reading for anyone who has performance-critical applications. (see DN475452431)
• Long discussion on improving the string command interface to more directly support real-world applications. (see DN474374687)
• Bryan Oakley has started what promises to be a long thread entitled "tcl/tk 9.0 - remove the warts! (?)". Lots of discussion about cleaning up the command namespace and the inconsistancies in the list command. (see DN474822904)
• Adding major/minor subcommands to new or existing commands (Announcement and Discussion)- breaks out in to an interesting thread on the byte compiler. (see DN474332371)
• Curried commands and lamdas in pure Tcl (Announcement and Discussion) (see DN474276792)
• If you have ever been frustrated by shared libs on HP-UX this patch is a must! (see DN474842129)
• Nice discussion on the many ways of representing complex structured data in Tcl. (see DN474877938)
• What the heck is foo anyway! http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/frames/F/foo.html
• "These are a few of my favorite things" (or do you hear the sound of music?) Please join in and add your favorites to this thread (see DN473006839)
• Tk8.1 strongly unstable with --enable-thread The Scriptics team are very interested in getting detailed reports on this issue (see DN473382164)
• Last weeks Tcl-URL! mention of Tcl vs. Perl spawned some interesting debate. (see DN473460619)
• Opening URL's in the browser (Sample Code) (see DN473889119)
• The Dangers of \x (see DN474138357)