** Summary ** '''Quoting Hell''' is where you are when you've backed yourself into a corner, and now find yourself escaping escape characters in your programming language. In some languages, this is the natural state of things. In Tcl, it happens when you're on the newbie learning curve and haven't yet come to the '''a-ha!''' moment about the [code is data%|%code/data] duality of Tcl values. You know you're in quoting hell when your Tcl code begins to look like [Perl]. Thankfully, unlike some other languages, quoting hell can be mostly avoided in Tcl. To learn how, digest the contents of [Tcl Quoting]! <> Glossary