From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-12-22T09:44:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Some Ruby 1.9 loose ends to tie up

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

>> |2) Will Kernel.__callee__ be implemented so it works as documented in 
>> |1.9?  If not, may I delete its rdoc comment?
>>
>> Oh, it's yet another unaddressed issue.  I'd like to implement
>> __callee__ as it described, but I have to ask Koichi how to do it.
>> Stay tuned.
> 
> I must have missed it, what is __callee__ supposed to do?
> 

__method__ returns the name of the current method as defined. 
__callee__ is supposed to return the name of the current method, as 
invoked--this may be different when there are aliases.  Currently, 
though __callee__ is the same as __method__.  (I think maybe it worked 
before YARV integration).