The list is the basic Tcl data structure. A list is simply an ordered collection of stuff; numbers, words, strings, or other lists.
Even commands in Tcl are just lists in which the first list entry is the name of a proc, and subsequent members of the list are the arguments to the proc. Lists can be created in several ways: by setting a variable to be a list of values set lst {{item 1} {item 2} {item 3}} with the split command set lst [split "item 1.item 2.item 3" "."] with the list command. set ...
