AW: [R-gui] tkbind-question

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Unternährer Thomas, uth" <uth at zhwin.ch> writes:

> Thanks a lot for your answer...
> 
> I know the command tkcmd, but it's not really clear to me what exactly is the benefit in using tkcmd instead of 
> .Tcl(paste(...)). If I use the .Tcl-version I can use exactly the tcl-syntax, what sometimes is easier.
> 
> Are there some real benefits in using tkcmd()?

Mostly readability, but tkcmd will convert each argument to a Tcl
object and use Tcl_EvalObjv on the resulting list, which is faster
and, more importantly, avoids "quoting hell". The difference is mostly
immaterial but can be spectacular if large text strings is involved. 


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