The ireallyreallywanna operator

For 2023 - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

In Tcl, any character (yes - any character) can appear in a variable name, though making use of variable names that contain - for example - spaces adds a needless complexity to your coding. Groups of special characters can be protected from the Tcl interpreter by wrapping them in curly braces, and individual characters protected by preceding them with a backslash character. That's a more general rule - it applies not only to variable names, but also to any single parameter string.

You could say that { } and \ are the "ireallywanna" operators ... in the same way that you can say that [ ] is the "choose me first" operator and that $ is the "contents of" operator.

(written 2005-06-28, updated 2008-06-07)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

T202 - Tcl/Tk - Tcl Fundamentals
  [3] Looking for a donkey - (2004-08-05)
  [210] Joining lists in Tcl. Indirect variables in Tcl. - (2005-02-12)
  [328] Making programs easy for any user to start - (2005-05-29)
  [349] Comments in Tcl - (2005-06-16)
  [782] Converting between Hex and Decimal in Tcl - (2006-06-28)
  [1136] Buffering output - why it is done and issues raised in Tcl, Perl, Python and PHP - (2007-04-06)
  [1282] Stringing together Tcl scripts - (2007-07-29)
  [1426] Buffering up in Tcl - the empty coke can comparison - (2007-11-10)
  [1469] Curley brackets v double quotes - Tcl, Tk, Expect - (2007-12-12)
  [2442] Variable storage - Perl, Tcl and Python compared - (2009-10-08)
  [3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions - (2012-11-09)
  [4324] Learning to program - variables and constants - (2014-11-22)
  [4453] Tcl variable names - no real limits! - (2015-03-10)

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