That's the long way round. (I reckon I can do that.) I only need the warning (for the end-user). Plus maybe the names clashed (for the customer to give to the helpline). The aim is to help with new customers hitting time-consuming installation problems.
2011/10/9 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
