On 2013-7-8 06:26 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Jul 7, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Quotes aren't actually wrong in this context (other than that it's a bit >> of a wart that expr and if require literal strings to be quoted when Tcl >> in general does not), and I actually prefer quotes for values where >> we're not preventing substitutions that would otherwise happen. > > I suppose I look at it the other way. That is, I prefer using quotes if and > only if substitution is involved. This also prevents Tcl from checking for > substitutions unnecessarily, but I admit that this is certainly premature > optimization.
I think it improves readability as well. 'If' conditions can end up looking like "brace brace brace, brace brace brace brace". - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
