Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

Substitutions

You must be aware of Tcl parsing and substitutions when commands are invoked in other interpreters. There are three cases corresponding to interp eval, interp invokehidden, and command aliases.

With interp eval the command is subject to a complete round of parsing and substitutions in the target interpreter. This occurs after the parsing and substitutions for the interp eval command itself. In addition, if you pass several arguments to interp eval, those are concatenated before evaluation. This is similar to the way the eval command works as described in Chapter 19. The most reliable way to use interp eval is to construct a list to ensure the command is well structured:

interp eval slave [list cmd arg1 arg2]

With hidden commands, ...