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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2003-11-14 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + + * doc/Tcl.n: Updated Tcl version number and changebars. + 2003-11-14 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * doc/ParseCmd.3: Implementation of TIP 157. Adds recognition @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Tcl.n,v 1.10 2003/11/14 20:44:43 dgp Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Tcl.n,v 1.11 2003/11/14 21:13:04 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros -.TH Tcl n "8.1" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" +.TH Tcl n "8.5" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" .BS .SH NAME Tcl \- Tool Command Language @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ as ordinary characters and included in the word. Command substitution, variable substitution, and backslash substitution are performed on the characters between the quotes as described below. The double-quotes are not retained as part of the word. +.VS 8.5 br .IP "[5] \fBArgument expansion.\fR" If a word starts with the string ``{expand}'' followed by a non-whitespace character, then the leading ``{expand}'' is removed @@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ word. After substitution, the word is parsed again without substitutions, and its words are added to the command being substituted. For instance, ``cmd a {expand}{b c} d {expand}{e f}'' is equivalent to ``cmd a b c d e f''. +.VE 8.5 .IP "[6] \fBBraces.\fR" If the first character of a word is an open brace (``{'') and rule [5] does not apply, then @@ -156,7 +158,6 @@ in braces or quotes. .TP 7 \e\e Backslash (``\e''). -.VS 8.1 br .TP 7 \e\fIooo\fR . @@ -177,7 +178,6 @@ be 0. The hexadecimal digits \fIhhhh\fR (one, two, three, or four of them) give a sixteen-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character that will be inserted. -.VE .LP Backslash substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces, except for backslash-newline as described above. |