Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Tcl "gotcha" reminder ...

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3: Re: Tcl "gotcha" reminder ... (response to 1)
Posted by Alex Sokoloff on 02/26/03 02:46 PM
I remember being appalled when unbalanced brackets in comments would blow up in tcl. I can't believe they made it work that way by accident. What was the rationale for evaluating quoted code, anyway?
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Posted by Jeff Davis on 02/26/03 02:57 PM
I think it was done that way to horrify CS people :)
see http://mini.net/tcl/462 for more about it than anyone should
know.