# [APROG] $local

Bill Garrett (bill@yeehaw.com)
Fri, 1 Dec 1995 19:59:17 PST

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    > And what if I decide I want to not only keep track of the names and obj_nums,
    > but also the date the object was last modified (to make maintainence a smaller
    > headache)?  It's a fine idea to encourage some sort of systematization

    Excellent suggestion.

    > see absolutely no need to modify the server to recognize some new
    > &local_obj_name  {:= $list_utils:assoc($local.local_objects, name)[2]} syntax
    > when you can achieve the same thing in-db with something like
    > $local:local_object(name); which could then handle the lookup.

    Neither do I.  What I am suggesting is that the auto-porting code use the
    & sign as a flag, letting it know to do the sort of lookup you describe
    at the remote site.  I'd see, for example, `&frand-pc'.  Autoport would
    call $local:object("frand-pc") and use the object number that returned.
    There would be no modifications to the server, just this database-based
    lookup facility.
    Def.