The Jim Interpreter

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Jim Is Modular

One of the advantages of Jim Tcl is that the core interpreter contains only the bare essentials. Many Tcl standard commands are provided by optional extensions which can be disable or built as loadable modules if required.

core commands

*, +, -, /, alias, append, break, catch, collect, concat, continue, curry, dict, env, error, errorInfo, eval, exists, exit, expr, finalize, for, foreach, format, getref, global, if, incr, info, join, lambda, lappend, lassign, lindex, linsert, list, llength, lmap, local, lrange, lrepeat, lreplace, lreverse, lsearch, lset, lsort, proc, rand, range, ref, rename, return, scan, set, setref, source, split, stackdump, stacktrace, string, subst, switch, tailcall, tell, throw, time, unset, uplevel, upvar, while

aio extension

open, socket

eventloop extension

vwait, update, after

tclcompat extension

puts, gets, read, close, tell, seek, eof, flush, parray, try, throw, case

array extension

array

clock extension

clock

file extension

file, cd, pwd

exec extension

exec

load extension

load

package extension

package

posix extension

os.fork, os.wait, os.getids, os.gethostname, os.uptime, pid

glob, readdir extensions

glob, readdir

regexp extension

regexp, regsub

signal extension

signal, alarm, kill, sleep

In addition, features including references, UTF-8 support, IPv6 and command line editing can be disabled with configure. See configure --help for full details.

Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)