Don Guinn asked:
> What do you do if a local name is mapped to a file?
Because nouns yield their value immediately (ie. when encountered in a sentence
by the parser), there's no such thing as a "bound pronoun", and so mapped or
not, (pro)-nouns are irrelevant to f. (which is sometimes a nuisance, as in
name0`[email protected] f. ).
Put another way, given MYNOUN=:1 2 3 then with myVerb =: MYNOUN */ ] the
name MYNOUN appears nowhere in the value of myVerb (but its value does). This
is true whether MYNOUN is mapped or not (but if MYNOUN were mapped and its
value changed, so would the value of myVerb). So myVerb f. is no different
from myVerb itself.
But the your question leads to the general concern of tracking references to
mapped nouns. I have some (separate) utilities for that & related purpose.
See the announcement:
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2007-April/006144.html
and the code:
http://www.jsoftware.com/svn/DanBron/trunk/general/unmaphard.ijs
Unfortunately, this code too is dependent upon 15!:6 and so is currently broken.
-Dan
PS: I hate losing tools, even if it's my own fault for consciously relying
upon the unreliable.
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