Tcl TODOs

Milestones

The next *big* milestone is to be able to run tcl's test suite natively. That means being able to deal with all the commands in:

This will require a lot of work. On the plus side, we'll be passing a lot more tests by then. =-)

pbc_merge: Take advantage of the new pbc_merge to combine the various .pbc files into a singleton.
Makefile deps: Should be more explicit about the PMC dependencies in the makefile. *something* is causing things to get rebuilt unecessarily each time "make tclsh" is run.

keyed access: tcl is not using Keys when getting from aggregates. It probably should, at least for language interoperability.
implement default globals, etc.: global variables provided by tcl libary. tclvars.; global variables provided by tcl interpreter. tclsh; source per-user settings. tclsh

provide a way to access existing library PIR from Tcl.: Perhaps via [namespace import]? Can fake it right now with [inline]

[expr]: Add "is_const" global which checks to see if something is, in fact, constant. (which will allow us to then constant fold); TBD: ternary op; TBD: functions that take > 1 arg.; TBD: Argument type requirements - Currently works ONLY on bitand - esp need to get any that require int-only args, as we can now /generate/ floats, even if we cannot specify them. This is all supportable by MMD - we just need to specify the correct errors to throw.

[regexp], [regsub], -regexp: Don't have a tcl-style RE PGE class avaialable yet.
[pwd], [cd] [#???]: Need this to run tcltest
[interpinfo name] [#36277]: how to do this from inside parrot? Design issue: what's the right answer? if we're called as parrot tcl.pbc foo.tcl, do we report just parrot, or parrot tcl.pbc ?
[split]: There's already a split opcode that should do most of what we need, except it's not quite finished yet.
[after], [vwait]: pending the event system thunk.

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