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I think the article doesn't make enough mention of the fact that internally, most things are not actually strings for much of their lifetime. They must be able
by davidw 7y ago
I think the article doesn't make enough mention of the fact that internally, most things are not actually strings for much of their lifetime. They must be able to be represented that way, but that's different than everything being a string all the time. It does create a few problems, but they're a bit more subtle than "OMG, the integers are strings all the time!"
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThis is an old wiki entry that dates from the pre-8.0 days of Tcl (The history is truncated). For the past 20 years everything has been representable as a string.
- blacksqr 7y agoIt is old, but continuously updated. Last update, last Friday.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThat is irrelevant when the main thrust of the article is outdated and reflects the worldview from before Tcl_Obj was added.