I try when possible to avoid exporting function names.  If the user 
wants to run finesse in the package bridge, he can write

finesse_bridge_

can't he?  If he wants to cover that with a name in z, that's his business.

Henry Rich

On 10/9/2011 12:57 PM, Ian Clark wrote:
> 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_.
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>>
>>
>>
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