Do you need to get a copy of all the objects? Would it be enough to have a database with information about the objects?
In the case of verbs you could place a copy of the visual representation of the verb into a noun and take its vital info into the database. You could then put a time stamp on the info when you registered the info. 2011/10/9 Ian Clark <[email protected]> > As a (paranoid?) safety device in a "fit'n'forget" utility, I'm trying > to write code to go in a given script which will warn when that script > will unintentionally alter -- or has altered -- an existing name in > the _z_ locale. > > NB: "alter", not merely "overwrite" -- though a slick way of detecting > overwrite would be worth knowing too. APL+Win attaches a timestamp to > each fn, which makes this task easy. > > It would be nice not to have to maintain -- by-hand -- an explicit > list up-front, of names created by the script. > > An allied question: how best can I "snapshot" a given locale -- such > as _z_? That is: create a second temporary locale _sav_ with identical > contents? I can only think of brute-force: enumerating the names in > _z_ and copying them one-by-one to _sav_. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 twitter: @flugfiskur http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
