Find the name of the current proc?

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May 24 2006, 9:28 am
Is there some way to do this? Like this:

proc/MyProc()
  world << "Running [thisproc()]"


Returns: "MyProc"
May 24 2006, 9:32 am
 
proc/MyProc()
    var/p_name="MyProc"
    world << "Running [p_name]"


Seems like the simplest solution. Isn't there a name variable for procs? Or something like that, that gets set by default?
May 24 2006, 9:39 am
I don't think so. I've suggested it before, and I've also suggested a way to get not only the current proc but the entire call stack. For now we have to find ways to work around it ourselves.
May 24 2006, 9:45 am
In response to Scoobert
Well, the proc does have a name; it has to if it can be used as a verb. However, objects don't have a procs list variable like they do for verbs. I suppose perhaps you could add the proc to a verbs list then turn around and treat it as a verb to get its name. But then that takes more work to accomplish the same thing as just having a variable like you showed, so it'd be silly to do.

There should be a keyword for functions that refers to the instance of the function. And then perhaps there should also be an actual object of type /function.
May 24 2006, 12:33 pm
Not unless you build a system that facilitates such a thing, which would be on top of the built-in system. BYOND does not treat procs as objects, as other enviornments like Java sometimes do.