[Jprogramming] detecting name-clash in _z_

[Björn Helgason]

I guess a utility similar to the package manager is what the new customer
might need/want so he could compare a healthy installation with what he has
got listing all the folders and names in them.

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

> 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.
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
> >
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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  |
   (   -.  |        `-----------------------------------'
   |     ) |         (\_ _/)
  (`-.  '--.)       (='.'=)   ♖♘♗♕♔♙
   `. )----'        (")_(") ☃☠