Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Activestate tcl.conf

👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully weird beast:, 7. Let me preface this by saying I honestly wrestled a bit with picturing exactly what we were dealing with.

Activestate TCL.INI (… wait, no! It's .CONF now. Let's go with TCL.CONF... for the sake of it.) – Defined Like an Archaeological Dig. Now, in the grand, slightly paranoid scheme of things when you mess around with scripting languages like Tk prompted by a company called Activestate, this TCL.CONF file is basically… your really, really, secret, and probably somewhat disorganized, attempt to bribe the Almighty TCL into behaving exactly how you’d like it to. Here's what that actually means: 1. The Frankenstein of Defaults: TCL (Common Toolkit Notation – a fancy scripting language) comes pre-packaged with lots of sensible defaults, right? About 50 loads of good sense and reasonable behaviour. Activestate, bless their somewhat frantic efforts at porting TCL to the desktop and beyond, figures you might… occasionally... want to deviate from this carefully considered baseline. So they give you a place to shout "Override me! I've got your whole damn TCL thing! ." 2. .INI? Seriously, Who Keeps That Extension Around?: When TCL started out, the old configuration files were actually in the ".INI" format. You’d