From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2002-09-20T19:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC: Need a better caller(n) - real reflection for call stack wanted


On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 02:45 AM, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "R" == Ryan Davis <ryand@zenspider.com> writes:
>
> R> Is there a better way???? caller(n) returns a string, and I have to
> R> parse it for the method name. This is scary at best. I'd much rather
> R> have something that gave me either the method instance itself, or 
> some
> R> instance representation of the call stack. Something like:
>
>  Look at [ruby-talk:12097] "RCR: replacing 'caller'" for a previous
>  discussion on this subject

So... Matz's reply (granted, a year ago) says the change was 
committed... but I can't find it. Did it move out of eval??? Or was it 
popped out later on?

If the latter, I'll make a stab at writing the code to my proposal... 
I'll even write unit tests. ;)