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Alan Anderson  
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 More options Oct 21 2007, 7:06 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
From: Alan Anderson <arand...@insightbb.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:06:11 -0400
Local: Sun, Oct 21 2007 7:06 pm
Subject: Re: Call by Reference
In article <slrnfhm1c9.f28....@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>,
 Andreas Leitgeb <a...@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> I'd rather have a fundamental discussion about whether
>   proc addfoo {&list} {lappend list "foo"}
> would be a generally good feature or not. I think it
> is, you seem to disagree.

I don't see the point in adding such a feature to the core.  If you want
to do it yourself, nobody is stopping you, and indeed several people are
willing to help you come up with good ways to implement it.  But there
doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to add an unobvious piece of
syntax just to avoid having to put an upvar command somewhere in the
code.

 
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