Sujet : Re: Why do we need "eval"? (Expect question)
De : rich (at) *nospam* example.invalid (Rich)
Groupes : comp.lang.tclDate : 13. Sep 2024, 18:24:58
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Kenny McCormack <
gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
In article <vc0lm1$npv9$1@dont-email.me>,
Harald Oehlmann <wortkarg3@yahoo.com> wrote:
Am 12.09.2024 um 20:45 schrieb Kenny McCormack:
ISTM that this {*} thing is a relatively recent addition to the langauge,
since Expect has been around for a long time, and most of the scripts that
do this sort of thing were written long ago.
>
"Relatively recent" is quite relative. Here is the relevant changes file
entry:
>
2006-11-02 (feature change)[TIP 293] Replace {expand} with {*} (hobbs)
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with previous 8.5 alphas only ***
>
;-)
The other poster seemed to think 2016 (not 2006). That's still 8 years
ago...
I pulled a date for a "point version" of 8.5 instead of 8.5.0.
Why do we need "eval"? (Expect question)
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