# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #37957] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37957 >
Tcl 8.5 (at least) has a new {expand} keyword, adding another rule to tcl parsing. http://tcl.activestate.com/cgi-bin/tct/tip/157.html describes it. The rule is, basically: if a word starts with the string {expand}, it's treated like :flat -- whatever word that immediately follows it is expanded in place. Here's an example from the tcl suite namespace tests: catch {namespace delete {expand}[namespace children :: test_ns_*]}