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Bug#993388: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#993388: tcl8.6: nested dicts: with lappend you can duplicate and than remove intermediate values

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Hi Davide,

As far as I can see, there's nothing wrong with Tcl here. You just
treat a list as a dict, hence the confusion. See this simpler example:

% set M {A B C D C {1 2}}
A B C D C {1 2}

Here, $M contains a list (actually, a string which can be interpreted
as a list). But we can try to interpret it as a dict:

% dict lappend M C 3
A B C {1 2 3}

Here, $M is reinterpreted as a dict, with odd items A, C, C as its
keys, and even items B, D, {1 2} as values. The problem is that there
is the duplicate key C, so Tcl had to drop one of its values (the last
one overwritten the first one upon creation of the dict). After that,
3 was appended to the list {1 2}.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan

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Bug#993388: tcl8.6: nested dicts: with lappend you can duplicate and than remove intermediate values Davide Prina <Davide.Prina@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 18:40 +0200
  Bug#993388: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#993388: tcl8.6: nested dicts: with lappend you can duplicate and than remove intermediate values Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 18:40 +0200
    Bug#993388: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#993388: tcl8.6: nested dicts: with lappend you can duplicate and than remove intermediate values Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2021-09-03 20:50 +0200

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