That's nice to know, Stef. I'll check it out. And I bet it makes the
implementation of Causeway so much simpler!

I forget what []WATCHPOINTS does about localized variables. Whatever
it is, it wasn't what you'd want.

You get used to certain things using a facility like this. One of them
is to avoid setting watchpoints on vars with names like 'z', whatever
it does.


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Stefano Lanzavecchia <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can I have a facility, please, to make a designated variable post an
>> event whenever its value is changed?
>
>> Dyalog had nothing like it
>> -- and Donnelly growled that it was impossible without affecting their
>> precious performance metrics.
>
> That was back in the days... It has it now. It's called "trigger". It's not
> based on events but on callbacks. Its behavior may be baffling when
> intersected with APL scope rules (is "x" the same "x" I had in the calling
> function if I am localizing "x"?). But it's definitely there.
> --
> Stefano
>
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