Re: [Caml-list] getting the name of a function from its body

[Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>]

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The argument makes no sense since inlining would also affect MODULE, FILE,
etc. It seems more like an omission.

-Yotam

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Gustave Nimant <gustave.nimant@free.fr>
wrote:

> On 01/06/2015 18:46, Francois Berenger wrote:
>
>>
>>> It seems that the functions described in
>>> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Pervasives.html
>>> do not answer my question :
>>> "how to get the name of the current function ?"
>>>
>>
>> It is currently not possible.
>>
>> There is no __FUNCTION__ like you have in C.
>> I was also quite interested by this feature a long time ago.
>> For loggers it is quite useful.
>>
>> I cannot find the thread back, I don't know where to search the archives
>> of caml-list.
>> Gabriel Scherer mentioned there is not always a function name since
>> they can be inlined by the compiler, if I remember correctly.
>>
> I hope the argument of the inlining case is not serious, is it ?
>
> Best,
> Gustave
>
>
>
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