Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

The interp Command

The interp command is used to create and manipulate interpreters. The interpreter being created is called a slave, and the interpreter that creates it is called the master. The master has complete control over the slave. The interp command is summarized in Table 19-1.

Table 19-1. The interp command.

interp aliases slave	Lists aliases that are defined in slave.
interp alias slave cmd1	Returns the target command and arguments for the alias cmd1 in slave.
interp alias slave cmd1 master cmd2 arg ...	Defines cmd1 in slave that is an alias to cmd2 in master with additional args.
interp create ?-safe? slave	Creates an interpreter named slave.
interp delete slave	Destroys interpreter slave.
interp eval slave cmd args ...	Evaluates cmd and ...