Version 4 of tailcall

Updated 2008-08-29 22:09:31 by mig

Like uplevel 1 except that it also causes the current scope to terminate, though the command is looked up in the current context first. Consequence of NRE.

 proc fred {} {
     george
 }

proc george {} {

 proc george {} {
      tailcall harry
 }

If I call fred, it's almost as though fred called harry directly, instead of george. Not so? MS: yup - all traces of george are gone from the program stack when harry is MS yup - all traces of george are gone from the program stack when harry is called. Now, if harry resolves to a different command in george's current namespace than it would under fred's, the harry that is called is george's and not fred's (no diff if the commands are FQ, of course). I think this does pretty much what delegation is supposed to do, right? I think this does pretty much what delegation is supposed to do, right?