Author: coke Date: Mon Jul 21 15:05:11 2008 New Revision: 29658 Modified: trunk/languages/tcl/README.pod
Log: [tcl] docu-clean up Modified: trunk/languages/tcl/README.pod ============================================================================== --- trunk/languages/tcl/README.pod (original) +++ trunk/languages/tcl/README.pod Mon Jul 21 15:05:11 2008 @@ -13,21 +13,22 @@ ../../parrot tcl.pbc foo.tcl You can also generate a faux-executable with C<make tclsh>; You could then -run examples with simply: +run examples with, e.g.: - ./tclsh + ./tclsh example/bench.tcl =head2 Interactive tclsh -To run partcl interactively, type: +To run partcl interactively, simply run the faux-executable with no args: - make tclsh + ./tclsh -in this directory. +or, similarly, the parrot bytecode: + ../../parrot tcl.pbc =head2 Command line options -partcl supports two command line options (that are B<not> standard Tcl): +partcl supports two command line options, neither of which are standard Tcl. =over 4 @@ -47,9 +48,6 @@ the PIR on STDOUT. This PIR can then be compiled to parrot bytecode, or run directly through parrot. (Works with C<-e>.). -To pretty print the PIR that is generated, you can use the I<experimental> -utility in C<../../tools/util/pirtidy.pl>. - =back =head2 Examples @@ -64,12 +62,14 @@ collection system. Send the results of both to the mailing list C<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -=head2 Documentation +To run the spec test suites, type C<make tcl-test>; This will check out +the tests from tcl's CVS repository for the 8.5.2 release and run them. -See C<docs/> and C<TODO> +Note that the tests are I<fudged> slightly to use our version of [test] +As soon as we can run tcltest.tcl natively, we will. -=head2 Tcl Version +=head2 Documentation -We are targeting Tcl 8.5.1. +See C<docs/> and C<TODO> =cut
