Re: Retrieve name of called function ?

[Markus Ewald <Markus_Ewald@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> > Is the function name from the call still somewhere in the lua stack or 
> > can I somehow else retrieve the function name under which it was called ?
>
> If you register the same C function with different names in Lua, they are 
> actually different objects in Lua and you can use the debug interface to find
> the name it was registered. Try this:
>
> static int F(lua_State *L) 
> {
> lua_Debug ar;
> lua_getstack(L,0,&ar);
> lua_getinfo(L,"n",&ar);
> printf("F called as %s\n",ar.name);
> return 0;
> }
>
>  lua_register(L,"F",F);
>  lua_register(L,"G",F);
That works, thanks!

However, with the following code
   a = MyFunction
   a("Test)

lua_getinfo() of course returns "a", not "MyFunction".


This isn't too important for the moment, but it means that any method 
calls to functions stored in anything other than their matching name 
variables will fail. On the other side, maybe I could create proxy 
functions for each possible method call dynamically somehow (now this 
will fool the debugger! :)

> --lhf
Thx,
-Markus-