Re: retrieving function/procedure's name

Thanks Mary,

NCL seems to be keeping track of function names internally, for
it can point to functions with incorrect codes and also their
ancestors when something goes wrong.

I was trying to implement a visual progress meter for our
automated system by having NCL output some GraphViz code
everytime it enters a function/procedure..It would be
easy to implement it if I could say

        "writeGraphVizLog("$0",filename)"

instead of

        "writeGraphVizLog("thisFunction",filename)"

But anyway, this is
not important at all - thanks for replying.

maybe a good time for a wish list (none of these
are terribly important though )...

would be nice if NCL had a command to read in strings from the
standard input... something like a read(*,*) statement in fortran.

would be nice to if users could use Object Oriented facets of NCL
in an easy way..esp. it would
be nice if we could easily use OO ideas like inheritance etc..

cheers,

saji

* Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> [2007-07-30 07:49:54 -0600]:

> Saji,
>
> I'm afraid there's no way to do this. I will find out if this is something
> that should be added to our "to do" list.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Jul 29, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Saji Njarackalazhikam Hameed wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Does the NCL scripting language have capability to retrieve
>> the name of say a function/procedure when we are within
>> that function..
>>
>> something like, say
>>
>> function myfunction()
>> begin
>> print("My name is "+$0)
>> end
>>
>> should print -> "myfunction"
>>
>> saji
>>
>> --
>> Saji N. Hameed
>>
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Yeonsan 2-dong, Yeonje-gu, BUSAN 611705			saji_at_apcc21.net
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