From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-04-02T09:23:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 28274-28600


ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Trans wrote:
>
> >> btw. whatever it is called this will be a very nice feature to have!
> >
> > A good name mught be __1ST__.
> >
> > T.
>
> ya know - what might really be good is
>
>    callstack #=> array of method objects
>
> where
>
>    first = callstack.first
>    p first.name #=> like __method__
>
>
> so, like caller but something more valuable than strings...
>
> thoughts??

Leave it Ara to to turn lemons into lemonade! :)

I argee, Ara. I've wondered about a more object-oriented callstack for
sometime --I've even created one with my TracePoint class. Which I then
use to create a more robust event tracing system (built on top of
set_trace_func).

T.