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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich <rich@example.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Re: Why do we need "eval"? (Expect question) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:24:58 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <vc1sha$ve71$1@dont-email.me> References: <vbv03t$1t4qm$1@news.xmission.com> <vbv8kd$blsb$1@dont-email.me> <vbvcsa$1tb4p$1@news.xmission.com> <vc0lm1$npv9$1@dont-email.me> <vc1s3q$1uhk4$1@news.xmission.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:24:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="31c2bedd965bbd9ffe53b26dfc990353"; logging-data="1030369"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+vnHWjqbt22w/YX2izGN1Z" User-Agent: tin/2.6.1-20211226 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.139 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e0yVt5V/2GLrBvfXK1oF+Ra1tzE= Bytes: 1851 Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote: > In article <vc0lm1$npv9$1@dont-email.me>, > Harald Oehlmann <wortkarg3@yahoo.com> wrote: >>Am 12.09.2024 um 20:45 schrieb Kenny McCormack: >>> ISTM that this {*} thing is a relatively recent addition to the langauge, >>> since Expect has been around for a long time, and most of the scripts that >>> do this sort of thing were written long ago. >> >>"Relatively recent" is quite relative. Here is the relevant changes file >>entry: >> >>2006-11-02 (feature change)[TIP 293] Replace {expand} with {*} (hobbs) >> *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with previous 8.5 alphas only *** >> >>;-) > > The other poster seemed to think 2016 (not 2006). That's still 8 years > ago... I pulled a date for a "point version" of 8.5 instead of 8.5.0.