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From: tma@osc.COM (Tim Atkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Show a method name
Keywords: V/286
Message-ID: <3066@osc.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 90 08:06:46 GMT
References: <20310@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: tma@osc.UUCP (Tim Atkins)
Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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In article <20310@grebyn.com> schultz@grebyn.com (Ronald Schultz) writes:
>Hopefully this is a simple question.
>
>I have a method, and all I want to do is have the method return it's
>name.  For a class I would simply say
>
>^self class name.
>
>How do I do this ?
>
>Thanx.
>
>schultz@grebyn.com


I don't have a Smalltalk-80 handy but the symbol for the method
selector can be found in Smalltalk V by

  ^(self class selectorFor:(Process copyStack methodAt:0)) key

Although this is obviously woefully inefficient, I hope it provides a clue.

- Tim