Name: validProcDescription: Determines if a procedure is valid in the context within which it is called. Just allows a clean test for usability.
Parameters: name - a proc name or wildcard in any number of forms:
1. foo - a plain proc name in ANY child namespace
2. ::foo* - all procs in the namespace foo
3. ::foo::* - same
4. ::foo::valid* - all procs named like this one
Usage: if { ! [ validProc "procname" ] } { complain }Comments: Best made use of in the negated sense as shown above.
proc validProc { { name * } } {
set namesp [ namespace children ]
;## if the argument was namespace aware
if { [ regexp {::} $name ] } {
set namesp {}
}
;## if the arg was of the form ::foo*
if { [ regexp {^(::[^:]+)\*} $name -> tmp ] } {
set name ${tmp}::*
}
;## examine all namespaces visible locally
foreach ns $namesp {
if { ! [ regexp {::$} $ns ] } {
ns ${ns}::
}
if { [ llength [ info commands $ns$name ] ] } {
return 1
}
}
;## if the argument was a non-namespace proc
if { [ llength [ info commands $name ] ] } {
return 1
}
return 0
}--
Phil Ehrens
