Eagle: Tcl Implementation in C

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Eagle Tcl Implementation in C

• 15th Annual Tcl Conference
• Joe Mistachkin

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What is Eagle?

• Eagle is an open-source implementation of Tcl
  written in C for the CLR.
• Designed to embed in CLR-based applications.
• Supports approximately 90 of the Tcl 8.4 core
  command set.

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Notable Features

• Integrates with CLR classes.
• Integrates with Tcl/Tk.
• Integrates with native libraries.
• Supports interactive debugging.
• Supports script cancellation.
• Supports read-only variables, commands, etc.
• Supports interpreter-wide variable tracing.
• Supports closures.
• Supports Unicode (UCS-2).

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What is missing?

• No Tk commands.
• No argument expansion syntax.
• No namespace support.
• No binary, fblocked, fcopy, fileevent, format,
  glob, history, memory, scan, or trace commands.
• No registry or DDE commands.
• No asynchronous input/output.
• No server sockets.
• No slave interpreters, no hidden commands, no
  aliases, and no Safe Tcl.
• No http, msgcat, or tcltest packages.
• For the open command, command pipelines and
  serial ports are not supported.
• For the exec command, Unix-style input/output
  redirection and command pipelines are not
  supported.

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Demonstration
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Where is it?

• http//eagle.to/

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Questions and Answers