From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T19:31:54+09:00
Subject: Re: About 1.9 #__method__ feature.

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:35:29AM +0900, Logan Capaldo 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).

I once wrote another Binding.of_caller that didn't use continuations and it
was much faster.  But the interface was ugly.

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