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Quasiquoting is only necessary in Lisp because Lisp evaluates its arguments by default. Tcl does not do that.
by bsder 2y ago
Quasiquoting is only necessary in Lisp because Lisp evaluates its arguments by default. Tcl does not do that.
- kazinator 2y agoQuasiquoting allows us to specify a mostly fixed template of code where we would like to indicate variable parts that are to be substituted (note: not evaluated). The stuff here sure looks like quasiquoting to me: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Macro+Facility+for+Tcl https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Macro+Facility+for+Tcl mac mloop {idx cnt cmd} { return "for {set $idx 0} {\$[set $idx] < $cnt} {incr $idx} {$cmd}" } The "..." with embedded $... reference is is a kind of quasiquote.