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From: Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: tcl hidden "cruelties"
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:51:49 +0200
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* aotto1968 <aotto1968@t-online.de>
| Regardless of "broken code", TCL itself has some cruelties in its
| syntax. Here, for example, the storage of an "array" with a namespace
| path, which in TCL always has !! TWO !! commands. ONE command to
| generate the namespace and ONE command to finally
| generate the array.
>
| namespace eval ::funcDEF::MkErrN {}
| array set ::funcDEF::MkErrN::my {
|     RETURN_MAPPING                                     {}
--<snip-snip>--
|     var0                                               mng
| }

Well, you *could* do it in one step, but you don't have to ;-)

    namespace eval ::funcDEF::MkErrN {
      variable my
      array set my {
          RETURN_MAPPING {}
          ...
          var0 mng
      }
    }

HTH
R'