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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2002-08-28 14:46:50 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2002-08-28 14:46:50 (GMT)
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More people should automatically reach for the list command in conjunction with
the eval command following this doc change. Also added missing character in SEE ALSO reference.
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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: eval.n,v 1.3 2000/09/07 14:27:47 poenitz Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: eval.n,v 1.4 2002/08/28 14:46:50 dkf Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH eval n "" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ script containing one or more commands.
fashion as the \fBconcat\fR command, passes the concatenated string to the
Tcl interpreter recursively, and returns the result of that
evaluation (or any error generated by it).
+Note that the \fBlist\fR command quotes sequences of words in such a
+way that they are not further expanded by the \fBeval\fR command.
.SH KEYWORDS
concatenate, evaluate, script
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-catch(n), concat(n), error(n), subs(n), tclvars(n)
+catch(n), concat(n), error(n), list(n), subst(n), tclvars(n)