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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Call by Result
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Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>   This is just the realization of »Tell, Don't Ask«.
>   Here, one asks the object:
> if( getter.isValid() )...
>   Here, one tells the object what to do:
> new StringGetter().get( [string|...], [report|...] );

If you'd like coding like that, you *might* like Tcl.

Passing scriptlets to commands to have them executed (conditionally,
repeatedly, deferredly, just later, within a different context, ...)
is just simply normal in Tcl.  Even the "if" statement itself is
merely a command that gets passed scriptlets and executes one (or maybe
even none - if no condition is true and no "else"-scriptlet given) ...