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Author Re: TclOO
Robert Hicks

2007-12-27, 7:16 pm

On Dec 27, 2:38 pm, "Donal K. Fellows"
<donal.k.fell...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Robert Hicks wrote:
>
> It doesn't. :-) Either it's done by tying object lifetime to scope
> lifetime (which is trivial to implement, frankly, and doesn't need
> magical support by me) or it's done by tying it to Tcl value[*] lifetime
> which is going against the Tao of Tcl as currently understood by me. One
> of the ways I made TclOO a tractable problem was by not dealing with
> this sort of thing. :-)
>
> Donal.
> [* Yes, they're called Tcl_Objs, but no, they're not objects. ]


Thanks for the clarification.

Robert
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