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Thanks a lot, Rich!

On Sun, 22 Feb 2026, Rich wrote:

> The docs answer that question for you.  Note last sentence in the quote
> below from the namespace manpage.:
>
>  You can access a namespace variable from a procedure in the same
>  namespace by using the variable command.  Much like the global
>  command, this creates a local link to the namespace variable.  If
>  necessary, it also creates the variable in the current namespace and
>  initializes it.

Very interesting!

Also the two sentences that follow:

"Note that the global command only creates links to variables in
the global namespace. It is not necessary to use a variable command
if you always refer to the namespace variable using an appropriate
qualified name."

I suppose the phrase "links to variables in the global namespace"
in the first sentence means "links to variables relative to
the global namespace".

If I have a variable v in the namespace name, then

"global ::name::v" and "variable v" inside a procedure in
"namespace eval name" will do the same.

It seems the command "variable" is necessary because "global" is
unable to deal with paths relative to the namespace.

Am I wrong?

Rod.

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