Re: Finding out the name of the dispatched function

[Shai Ayal]

My question was not clear -- consider the following example with the 
theoretical function HowWasICalled:

function xxx
   disp(["--> ",HowWasICalled()]);
endfunction

dispatch("yyy","xxx","any");
dispatch("zzz","xxx","any");

xxx
--> xxx

yyy
--> yyy

zzz
--> zzz


Is the a function which does what HowWasICalled does? A function like 
this would allow a single function to be reused. An immediate example 
which springs to mind is a generic warning function:

function gen_warn
   warning("%s is depreciated\n",HowWasICalled());
endfunction

dispatch("set","gen_warn","any");
dispatch("gset","gen_warn","any");


and so on

Shai

Paul Kienzle wrote:
> Help dispatch says:

>     dispatch('f')
>
>       List dispatch functions for 'f'
>
> This doesn't quite do what you want.
>
> Unfortunately dispatch('f','type') clears the dispatch rather than
> displaying it.  This could be changed to display so that
> dispatch('f','type') displays the dispatch, and use something else
> such as dispatch('f','type',[]) to clear it.
>
> - Paul
>
> On Apr 15, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a way to find out the name of the dispatched function? An 
> > example:
> >
> > function xxx
> >    disp("xxx")
> > endfunction
> >
> > dispatch("yyy","xxx","any");
> > dispatch("zzz","xxx","any");
> >
> > I would like to know in xxx whether it was called as xxx, yyy, or zzz.
> >
> > Shai
> >
> >
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