QOTW: "[R]egular expressions are NOT the best place to start
programming." - Elchonon
Donal K. Fellows succinctly explains how Tcl can and does
operate on multi-core and multi-processor hosts:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/2698a41ce02a0c47
[clock scan] has surprising and lovable capabilities; among
other things, it allows for coding with "1 hour" in place of
[expr 60 * 60]:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c93cf24e8317954c
Thanks to Uwe Klein for his TIP report:
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips ( from 8/8/2008 onwards )
TIP 89 by Tom Wilkason : Try/Catch Exception Handling in the Core
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/89.html
State has changed from Draft to Withdrawn
TIP 195 by Peter Spjuth : A Unique Prefix Handling Command
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/195.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 236 by Neil McKay : Absolute Positioning of Canvas Items
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/236.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 265 by Sam Bromley : A Convenient C-side Command Option Parser for Tcl
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/265.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 301 by Alexandre Ferrieux : Split Bidirectional Channels For
Half-Close
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/301.html
State has changed from Draft to Withdrawn
TIP 304 by Alexandre Ferrieux : A Standalone [chan pipe] Primitive
for Advanced Child IPC
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/304.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 314 by Lars Hellström : Ensembles with Parameters
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/314.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 313 by Peter Spjuth : Inexact Searching in Sorted List
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/313.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 315 by Hai Vu : Add pathSeparator to tcl_platform Array
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/315.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 316 by Donal K. Fellows : Portable Access Functions for Stat Buffers
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/316.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 317 by Pat Thoyts : Extend binary Ensemble with Binary Encodings
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/317.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 318 by Bill Poser : Extend Default Whitespace in 'string trim'
Beyond ASCII
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/318.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 320 by Donal K. Fellows : Improved Variable Handling in the Core
Object System
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/320.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 321 by Jos Decoster : Add a [tk busy] Command
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/321.html
Title has changed ( was Add a tk::busy Command
TIP 323 by Colin McCormack : Do Nothing Gracefully
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/323.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 326 by Kieran Elby : Add -stride Option to lsort
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/326.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 327 by Miguel Sofer : Proper Tailcalls
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/327.html
Vote: In progress
TIP 328 by Miguel Sofer : Coroutines
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/328.html
Vote: In progress
TIP 329 by Trevor Davel : Try/Catch/Finally syntax
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/329.html
is a new TIP
TIP 330 by Kevin B. Kenny : Eliminate interp->result from the Public
Headers
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/330.html
Vote: Done
TIP 331 by Kevin B. Kenny : Allow [lset] to Extend Lists
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/331.html
State has changed from Accepted to Final
TIP 332 by Alexandre Ferrieux : Half-Close for Bidirectional Channels
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/332.html
is a new TIP
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Clouds overhead, short days, yes, autumn again on the northern hemisphere.
As a consequence your Wiki chronicler may be as cheerful as usual. But
hey, let us just look at the Wiki itself!
Little helpers
- Here is a little procedure to split a body of code into individual
commands - robustly: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21701>
- A cross-platform way of dealing with a virtual mouse:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17999> - but you will end up in the
Half Bakery for the actual code.
- "Say it with flowers" is a famous advertisement slogan in the
Netherlands ... With this page you can actually "floralise" your
GUI: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9888>
- Who does not have countless copies of his/her favourite
source files? Here is a little utility to track them down:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/16160>
The bigger picture
- Lots of things to do as a community ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/66>
- Tcl as a scripting solution for any dot-net language? Yes, why not?
Attend the conference for a presentation about it and find the
source code via <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6580>
- The perennial confusion between an object system and a mega widget
system - even though they have nothing in common. Or do they?
The expose is at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13118>
- Just one of those things that easily go unnoticed: a compiler that
transforms Tcl into Java code - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15269>
Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about
The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
http://www.tcl.tk
Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/
The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
maintain references to their own software:
http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
boss Tcl is a good thing
http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/
The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things
Tcl.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl
"La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159
deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl
Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
needs to validate many of the links).
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even
though clta itself is dormant.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
We're working on more useful archives of past installments. Dave
Williams generously is building up
http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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