Understanding Tcl Polymorphism

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In Tcl a variable and a procs can have the same name ...

for instance I can have

set container(alist) {}

proc container a {puts " do something"}

Um ... what other forms of polymorphism exist in tcl? ... I am looking at some code and I see stuff like this.

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