Re: get object name from within object

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
<snip>
> Still, arguments.callee is the only way to access the
> current function without knowing its name. It's just that
> it only works inside that function, and at that point,
> you should know the name.

Which means that the only circumstances where arguments.callee would be
necessary is when the function is anonymous (the result of an anonymous
function expression or the use of the Function constructor, but only
sometimes), or when the author has (rather stupidly) re-used the
function's name as a formal parameter, local variable or inner function
name and so masked the property on the scope chain that refers to the
function itself.

Richard.


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