From: Russ McManus
Subject: Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper
Date: 
Message-ID: <ncju3lhfghc.fsf@nytrdc058.eq.gs.com>
········@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:

> 
> OK, let's raise the stakes a little.  :^)
> 
>   toplevel .t
>   button .t.b -text Hi! -font {Times 16} -command {puts "Pressed at (%x,%y)"}
>   pack .t.b -fill both -expand 1
> 
> The button now appears in a separate window to the main application
> window, and reports where it was pressed.  When this window is
> resized, the button will occupy any extra space allocated.  How much
> extra Lisp would be needed to achieve this?
> 

if you are using STk, then there is a nearly direct translation
from the tcl version to the scheme version.  you also get to
program in scheme, which is considerably more powerful than
tcl.

-russ

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