Funny how when you start making a list, you might even leave off the thing that inspired you to make the list in the first place. The aggravation that led me to my previous rant didn't even make it into that post. So let's extend the "Tcl is a Toy" list a little:
4. Comments don't always begin with "#". At the beginning of a line, "#" is the comment character. But if you want to put a comment at the end of a line of code, you have to use ";#". I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. So ridiculous that I had to start a blog just to rant about it, but when I went to post to the blog, I got sidetracked by three other ridiculous things.
5. Backslashes don't increase the line-number count. If you have some fancy scripts, or embedded Tcl, where you want to report the line number of certain actions, backslashes throw off the count. Why did you have backslashes in your script to begin with? Because Tcl is a toy language that would do something different if you started a new line there without the backslash. Argggh!
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