EuroTcl 2023 - Jim and Tcl interoperability, Featuring thing o_o, Georg Lehner, 2023-07-20
Jim vs. tclsh
Considerations when running scripts both with Jim and tclsh
Tcl source in Jim:
- Only a subset of commands and libraries is available.
- Some commands behave differently.
package
'ing works differently.
Jim specials:
- Dynamic namespaces.
Dynamic
arrays.
interp
's are neither safe nor hierarchic.
- No variable tracing.
- Different string/utf-8 handling