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>> Someone needs to think about this carefully, and see how easily >> we can mix Tcl's semantics with Scheme's semantics. I expect >> there are many strategies; whoever decides to start coding gets >> to make the decisions. Bruce> This has already been done once, with Rush. (Rush Bruce> translated to a modified scheme, in order to accommodate Bruce> variable tracing, which is important in Tcl.) I don't Bruce> think that Rush was ever released, but the Tcl FAQs have Bruce> references to papers on it, which describe the strategies Bruce> they used. Rush's author admitted to me that Rush was really vaporware and that he wished RMS had not picked up on it so much. Rush was the reason RMS promised Tcl-on-top-of-Guile.