Henry Rich wrote:
> Doing user interfaces I often find myself with several buttons that
> point to the same underlying function with different arguments, like:
>
> scoreboard_timer0_button =: timer_start@({&timer_buttontimes)@0:
> scoreboard_timer1_button =: timer_start@({&timer_buttontimes)@1:
> scoreboard_timer2_button =: timer_start@({&timer_buttontimes)@2:
> scoreboard_timer3_button =: timer_start@({&timer_buttontimes)@3:
> scoreboard_timer4_button =: timer_start@({&timer_buttontimes)@4:
> etc...
>
>
> I could save quite a bit of bulk if I could come up with an expression,
> call it
>
> whoami
>
> which would return, as a character string, the name of the explicit definition
> it is running in.
>
> I emphatically DO NOT want for whoami to require that debug be turned on.
>
> I have been defeated. Any winners?
I don't know the answer to the whoami, but you could save bulk with a
scoreboard_default handler, see
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/event_handlers.htm . In this case,
the "whoami" comes from the event information.
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