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- Subject: Re: What is the name of the calling function?
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 00:30:38 -0700
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Geoff Leyland
<geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Seems I spoke too soon!
/s/ Adam
