Feature: __FUNCTION__ to give name of parent function.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/21/10 10:20 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> This was a question asked in IRC, someone wanting a way to have the parent function
> name outputted for logging purposes. Just like there is __LINE__ and __FILE__ for
> access to the line number and filename, would be handy (and trivial to implement)
> if there was a __FUNCTION__ variable also for outputting the bare name of the
> function. Optionally could also add a __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ too for outputting the
> type signature of the function.
>
> ie:
> writeln(__FUNCTION__); // foo
> writeln(__PRETTY_FUNCTION__); // int foo(string)
>
> Regards

Yah, we need such. To help with generic code, I'm hoping for:

function.stringof
module.stringof
class.stringof
struct.stringof
union.stringof
enum.stringof

to yield the name of the current entity.


Andrei