It is useful to be able to retrieve the names and values in a namespace in the order in which they were assigned, especially when designing DSLs where users are writing scripts. For example, we may want to assign vectors into a namespace and then display the vectors as columns in an Excel spreadsheet in the same order.

One way to do this is with global triggers. Here is QNSO, for quad namespace, ordered:

QNSO←{
     s←⎕NS''
     s.∆nl←''
     f←⊂'∆T x' ':Implements Trigger *' '{}2007⌶1' '∆nl,←⊂x.Name' '{}2007⌶0'
     f,←⊂'z←∆NL' 'z←⌽∪⌽∆nl∩⎕NL ¯2'
     s⊣s.⎕FX¨f
 }

Now we can do:

      s←QNSO ''
      s.Zebras←5
      s.Apples←8
      s.Eggs←12
      s.∆NL
 Zebras  Apples  Eggs 
      s.Zebras←7
      s.⎕EX 'Apples'
      s.∆NL
 Eggs  Zebras 

The trigger function ∆T is called on every assignment to a global variable in the namespace. The assigned names are accumulated in the variable ∆nl. We have to be careful to use 2007⌶ to turn global triggers off and then back on, or else we will end up in an endless loop.