[Jprogramming] detecting name-clash in _z_

[Ian Clark]

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 <gosinn at gmail.com>:
> 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.
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> 2011/10/9 Ian Clark <earthspotty at gmail.com>
>
>> 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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