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authordonal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk <dkf>2012-11-20 12:13:43 (GMT)
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@@ -41,18 +41,18 @@ will call \fIproc\fR to process the command.
It differs from \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR in that a new string-based
command is defined;
that is, a command procedure is defined that takes an array of
-argument strings instead of objects.
-The object-based command procedures registered by \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR
+argument strings instead of values.
+The value-based command procedures registered by \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR
can execute significantly faster than the string-based command procedures
defined by \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR.
-This is because they take Tcl objects as arguments
-and those objects can retain an internal representation that
+This is because they take Tcl values as arguments
+and those values can retain an internal representation that
can be manipulated more efficiently.
-Also, Tcl's interpreter now uses objects internally.
+Also, Tcl's interpreter now uses values internally.
In order to invoke a string-based command procedure
registered by \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR,
it must generate and fetch a string representation
-from each argument object before the call.
+from each argument value before the call.
New commands should be defined using \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR.
We support \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR for backwards compatibility.
.PP