[perl #38903] Tcl - namespace borkage

[Will Coleda]

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Tcl uses globals in the '_Tcl' namespace to hold information about
the interpreter. But now:

find_global '_Tcl', 'foo

doesn't work, because it's relative to the current namespace, which
is usually Tcl.

This is the cause of most of the current Tcl failures.

[Will Coleda via RT]

The current top level namespaces are 'Tcl' and '_Tcl'. According to PDD21, this should be "tcl"
and "_tcl".

[Leopold Toetsch]

On Apr 12, 2006, at 18:00, Will Coleda (via RT) wrote:

> Tcl uses globals in the '_Tcl' namespace to hold information about
> the interpreter. But now:
>
> find_global '_Tcl', 'foo
>
> doesn't work, because it's relative to the current namespace, which
> is usually Tcl.

s/usually Tcl/usually tcl/ # i.e. the 'tcl' HLL namspace

This is exactly the behavior, I've summarized in several mails to p6i,
and therefore not a bug per se, but more a docu/pdd problem I presume.

leo