Autodetect changed name

Is it possible?

I know I can do things like a timer to check what the name is, but unless I have to I'd rather not for obvious reasons!

I've got something where there's a root prim and a comms prim. If people change the name of the root prim (which I hope they WILL) I need to change the name of the comms prim ideally to match. There are ways to do that of course, with timers, or the various event triggers and llGetLinkName(), but I was wondering if there was a good general way similar to changed()?

well, changed is an event handler. only so many event handlers exist,

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=events

and to my knowledge, there is no event that fires when the name is changed, so you'll have the use the other methods you metioned; just check the name periodically

Maybe you could set the name with with llSetObjectName via a listener. For example /1 setname newname could trigger the listen event where it could check if the first word was setname, if so change the name and do other stuff like send messages to the other prims with the new name.