Why is tcl broken?

[Marco Antoniotti]

jenglish at flightlab.com (Joe English) writes:

> Marco Antoniotti wrote:
> 
> >BTW. Is TCL statically or dynamically scoped?
> 
> Neither, really, since Tcl doesn't have nested procedures, lambda
> expressions, "let/letrec", local bindings or the like.
> 
> I'd describe Tcl as "namespace-scoped": there is an open-ended set
> of top-level "namespace" environments, plus a distinguished "global"
> environment.  In addition, each Tcl "proc" has its own local environment,
> into which variables from other environments can be explicitly imported
> via "variable", "global", explicit namespace reference, or "upvar".
> "upvar" gives you something *sort* of like dynamic scope, but not
> exactly.

Now, who was saying that Common Lisp macros are a source of
inconsistencies? :)

Cheers

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