From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T00:35:29+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.


On Jul 4, 2006, at 10:52 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Florian Gross wrote:
>
>> Daniel DeLorme wrote:
>>
>>> I've somtimes wanted a way to get at the binding of the caller but
>>> Binding.of_caller is just too much of a hack and I can't bring  
>>> myself to
>>> use it. But this would be a very elegant solution.
>>
>> I'd prefer having the functionality built-in as well. It might  
>> happen in the next few years from what I understand.
>
> any idea of the limitations of Binding.of_caller?
>
Well you can't use a trace function when you are using binding of  
caller, it has to be the last bit of code in a method that uses it,  
and it uses continuations (which are slow).

> -a
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