From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T09:42:01+09:00
Subject: Re: __PRETTY__FUNCTION__ for Ruby?

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> |We have __FILE__ and __LINE__....
> |
> |So it would be nice to have __PRETTY_FUNCTION__?
> |
> |Is there one or do I have to roll my own out of "caller(1)[0]"?
>
> You mean __method__ in 1.9?

Ah! Sorry! I was looking under the wrong name....

Now, thank you, I'm looking in the right place so I see.....

ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-06-20 patchlevel 22) [i686-linux]
$ ruby -e 'def foo;p __method__;end;foo'
:foo

Are you're saying that this behaviour change in 1.9?


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