[PD] Quick dev question r.e. underlying tcl version

[Pierre Alexandre Tremblay]

Ok thanks. I try it all and might do a PR if I’m despaired.

> On 19 Oct 2023, at 15:07, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> 
> On 10/19/23 14:56, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
>> This is great! 2 naive questions:
>> - if v 8.5 will it default to the (faster) native one? (Or is there a way to code that in)
> 
> it's not falling back automatically.
> but you can do:
> ```
> package require pdtcl_compat
> if { [catch {dict create} ] } { namespace import ::pdtcl_compat::dict }
> ```
> 
> (i notice that the documentation says differently (and Pd uses the compat library as documented), but the documented way appears to not work correctly (as in: it uses the slow emulation)
> 
> 
>> - I don’t see an iterator (dict’s “for")
> 
> i'm afraid only a subset of `dict` is implemented.
> i've had no real need for `dict for`, so it's not there.
> 
> 
> gfmdsa
> IOhannes
> 
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