One of my teachers once told me "It's even sillier to not ask a silly
question" ... so here I go:
Extracting SystemDateTime I do get a vector like this
] sdt=. 6!:0 ''
2016 4 16 9 12 59.257
which -from now on- has that value
sdt
2016 4 16 9 12 59.257
To get the current minute I might do something like
] mins=. {: 5 {. sdt
12
which gives the same result some time after, unless I explicitely do
] mins=. {: 5 {. sdt=. 6!:0 ''
30
Q:
Is there a way to sort of "wrap" the foreign (6!:0 '') so that "sdt"
will show the _current_ date/time string when called..?
(Sorry if I missed to make myself clear.)
Same question arose when e.g. trying stuff like
-- check print precision
ppchk=. 9!:10 ''
-- set print precision
ppset=. 3 : '9!:11 (y)' NB. seems to work ...
ppset 7
9!:10 ''
7
ppchk
7
ppset 11
9!:10 ''
11
ppchk NB. has (of course) still the previous value ...
7
And (again) here comes the silly
Q:
Is there a way to define "sdt" or "ppchk" (from above) so that they
immediately react to changes to the environment..?
(Looks to me if I'm asking for a verb without a noun to act on; is
that the moment the empty string ('') comes into play and the dog
chases its tail..?)
-M
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