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The recommended replacement is [http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/cmdline.html cmdline] in [http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html tcllib]. "This is probably the most standard and widely-used of these packages."
 
=={{header|VBA}}==
{{trans|Phix}}<lang vb>
Public Function timedelta(Optional weeks As Integer = 0, Optional days As Integer = 0, _
Optional hours As Integer = 0, Optional minutes As Integer = 0, Optional seconds As Integer = 0, _
Optional milliseconds As Integer = 0, Optional microseconds As Integer = 0) As Variant
End Function
Public Sub main()
'-- can be invoked as:
fourdays = timedelta(days:=4)
'-- fourdays = timedelta(0,4) '-- equivalent
'-- **NB** a plain '=' is a very different thing
oneday = timedelta(days = 1) '-- equivalent to timedelta([weeks:=]IIf((days=1,-1:0))
'-- with NO error if no local variable days exists.
'VBA will assume local variable days=0
Dim hours As Integer
shift = timedelta(hours:=hours) '-- perfectly valid (param hours:=local hours)
'-- timedelta(0,hours:=15,3) '-- illegal (it is not clear whether you meant days:=3 or minutes:=3)
'VBA expects a named parameter for 3
End Sub</lang>
=={{header|Visual Basic}}==
<lang vb>'the function
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