From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T17:19:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Best name for "this method" ?

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

> On Monday 27 September 2004 08:49 pm, Florian Gross wrote:
> 
>>JavaScript uses callee for the first-class version.
>>
>>
>>>  # Returns the current method or method name
>>>  def calling(firstclass=false)
>>>    m = /\`([^\']+)\'/.match(caller(1).first)[1]
>>>    return ( firstclass ? method( m ) : m.intern )
>>>  end
>>
>>Personally, I'd dump the first-class logic and call it method_name. It
>>is easy enough to turn that into a Method anyway.
> 
> Then what about #called for just the method name?
> 
>   def my_method
>     p called
>   end

Why not method_name? called() is a bit ambiguous IMHO...

Regards,
Florian Gross