From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Dec 29 20:14:13 2001
Subject: Is there a built-in variable that contains a function's name?
From: Roberto Hernandez <robher at adinet dot com dot uy>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:13:12 -0300

Hello everyone,

Is there any built in variable (such as nargin) that contains the name 
of the function that is being executed? I've been searching the 
documentation, but if it's there I haven't found it.

What I'm trying to do is to include something like this at the beginning 
of each function:

--------------------
function foo()
     printf("%s\n", variable_containing_function_name);
     fflush(stdout);

     ...
endfunction
--------------------

That way I can locate bugs a lot easier. I would rather use a variable 
than hard code the name in the printf statement if that's possible, just 
in case I later change the function name and forget to change the rest.

TIA and Happy New Year.

- Roberto




-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------