All of the arg arguments are concatenated as if they had been passed to concat; the result is then
evaluated in the variable context indicated by level. Uplevel returns the result of that evaluation.
If level is an integer then it gives a distance (up the procedure calling stack) to move before executing
the command. If level consists of # followed by a integer then the level gives an absolute level. If
level is omitted then it defaults to 1. Level cannot be defaulted if the first command argument is an
integer or starts with #.
For example, suppose that procedure a was invoked from top-level, and that it called b, and that b called
c. Suppose that c invokes the uplevel command. If level is 1 or #2 or omitted, then the command will
be executed in the variable context of b. If level is 2 or #1 then the command will be executed in the
variable context of a. If level is 3 or #0 then the command will be executed at top-level (only global
variables will be visible).
The uplevel command causes the invoking procedure to disappear from the procedure calling stack while the
command is being executed. In the above example, suppose c invokes the command
uplevel 1 {set x 43; d}
where d is another Tcl procedure. The set command will modify the variable x in b's context, and d will
execute at level 3, as if called from b. If it in turn executes the command
uplevel {set x 42}
then the set command will modify the same variable x in b's context: the procedure c does not appear to
be on the call stack when d is executing. The infolevel command may be used to obtain the level of the
current procedure.
Uplevel makes it possible to implement new control constructs as Tcl procedures (for example, uplevel
could be used to implement the while construct as a Tcl procedure).
The namespaceeval and apply commands offer other ways (besides procedure calls) that the Tcl naming
context can change. They add a call frame to the stack to represent the namespace context. This means
each namespaceeval command counts as another call level for uplevel and upvar commands. For example,
infolevel1 will return a list describing a command that is either the outermost procedure call or the
outermost namespaceeval command. Also, uplevel#0 evaluates a script at top-level in the outermost
namespace (the global namespace).