Re: Tcl vs. Lua

Isaac Gouy wrote:
> EIAS?

Everything Is A String, which is the fundamental basis of Tcl's semantic
model (stretching back to, oh, the very beginning!) Since 8.0 that's
been modified a little bit (to "Everything Looks and Works Like A
String") but that's close enough that it's not worth changing the acronym.

What does EIAS mean? It means that every value must be representable in
a printable way, and every value must be creatable from a string. For
simple things (like an integer or a list) it's pretty obvious how that's
done, but other cases (especially relating to some extensions) are much
harder.

Donal.
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:09:42 2006