From: Sam Stephenson <sstephenson@...>
Date: 2004-12-05T01:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a way to get the name of symbol passed to method?

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 01:14:57 +0900, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
<vanweerd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to get the name of the symbol passed to a method?
> 
> e.g.
> 
> def geterdone(array)
>       # funkify array- but I want to know name of original symbol, not
> array, and prefix each element with it
>       newarray=array.select(...){...}
> end
> 
> oldarray=[val1, val2, ...]
> newarray=geterdone(oldarray)
> # newarray is now ["oldarray:val1", "oldarray:val2", ...]
> 

Not without one of the parse-tree hook extensions, I would think. And
even then, what would you expect to happen here?
| newarray = geterdone([val1, val2, ...])

> Thanks,
> Nick

Sam