Building on existing Tcl features

• Built-in trace command

  • associates callbacks with changes to Tcl variables
  • uses mnemonic keywords to manipulate callbacks

• Extended trace command

  • Tcl API associates callbacks with changes to Tcl extension objects
  • C API supports creating traceable object types and detecting changes

• Extended trace APIs closely modeled on their built-in precursors

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