Tclperl 3.1 review

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Jean-Luc Fontaine

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Tclperl project allows the execution of Perl code from within a TCL interpreter using one or several embedded Perl interpreters.

This package allows the execution of Perl code from a Tcl interpreter, as in:

package require tclperl
set interpreter [perl::interp new]
$interpreter eval {print "Hello Worldn"}
perl::interp delete $interpreter

You can actually create several Perl interpreters this way, if the tclperl package was linked against a Perl library compiled with -DMULTIPLICITY, otherwise only 1 Perl interpreter can exist at a time.

Starting with version 3.1, you can also access and use the parent Tcl interpreter from a Perl interpreter (and even from Perl threads):

package require tclperl
set interpreter [perl::interp new]
puts [$interpreter eval {
$Tcl::parent->eval('clock format [clock seconds]');
}]
perl::interp delete $interpreter

This package works on UNIX machines (Redhat Linux rpms available at
http://jfontain.free.fr/) and Windows (thanks to David Gravereaux, DLL also available).