TCL lists and programs are inspired by shell script.
A space separates two adjacent items.
If a list item contains a space (or other special character) we quote the item.
Any valid unicode string is a valid list item, including the output of previous calls to tclList().
In fact the format is optimized for recursive lists.
tclList(a, b, c) in JavaScript is the same as
[list $a $b $c] in TCL.
If the items are strings, they are encoded in the normal TCL way.
If an item is a boolean, it is first converted to "1" or "0".
If an item is a number, it is converted to a string in the default way.
If an item is an array, tclList() recursively calls itself.
This encodes a list of strings in the TCL format.
TCL lists and programs are inspired by shell script. A space separates two adjacent items. If a list item contains a space (or other special character) we quote the item. Any valid unicode string is a valid list item, including the output of previous calls to
tclList(). In fact the format is optimized for recursive lists.tclList(a, b, c)in JavaScript is the same as[list $a $b $c]in TCL.If the items are strings, they are encoded in the normal TCL way. If an item is a boolean, it is first converted to "1" or "0". If an item is a number, it is converted to a string in the default way. If an item is an array,
tclList()recursively calls itself.For the unquoting rules, see http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/Tcl.html