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[[Parametric Polymorphism]]
: Tcl doesn't have static typing, making this task ridiculously trivial/non-applicable. Note also that the task itself states that it only applies to languages with static typing.
== Language features ==
Tcl uses a mixture of pass-by-value and pass-by-reference, and is very good at simulating pass-by-name too. The base language semantics are strictly pass-by-value; this was how everything was done up to Tcl 7.6, and when combined with the fact that it was also string based, it gave the language a (deserved) reputation for being slow. In Tcl 8.0 the language implementation was switched to pass-by-reference, with the entities being semantically immutable objects (the actual code is more nuanced than that, of course); that was a major part of why Tcl sped up with that version. The pass-by-name support is through the <code>[http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/upvar.htm upvar]</code> command, which allows the looking-up of a variable in one scope and aliasing it to another variable in the current scope.
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