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Article #4191Re: Wish list/shell
From: Anselm Lingnau
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:00
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In article <87yatffc4q.fsf@ivm.de>,
Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:
> No, it's not great, as it's a catastrophe to handle everything as a string.
> Guile, Pike and Python do not exhibit such weak semantics.
Just for the record, Tcl does *not* `handle everything as a string', and
hasn't done so for a while. Insisting that it still does doesn't help
the discussion and just makes you look uninformed.
Anselm
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