Re: What is the name of the calling function?

[Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>]

On 7/05/2013, at 7:02 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> How hard is it for a running function to find out the name of the
> function from which it was called?

> I've snooped around with debug.getlocal and debug.getinfo and
> I can't find it.


Does this help?

$ lua
Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> function a() print(debug.getinfo(2, "n").name) end
> function b() a() end
> b()
b
> c = b
> b = nil
> c()
c