[106996] trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jun 14 15:04:54 PDT 2013


On 2013-6-15 06:23 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> And in fact a variable name can contain a dot. We use them all the time, like ${configure.args}, but the use of the curly braces is necessary to tell Tcl to include them in the variable name.

Of course when I wrote "variable name" I meant an unquoted variable
name. A quoted variable name can contain any character apart from a
close brace.

- Josh


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