>You don't have to treat everything as a string. Oh, I agree with you on that. My point was that Tcl makes it especially easy to "cheat" and avoid building an

>You don't have to treat everything as a string. Oh, I agree with you on that. My point was that Tcl makes it especially easy to "cheat" and avoid building an AST. You may do this when you only care about writing an interpreter in few LOC, like the original version of Picol, quickly. A Tcl interpreter in VHDL sounds interesting. Do you have a public repository for it?