[erlang-questions] How to get the line number of current executable code?

[Edwin Fine]

Something I've wished for in numerous languages over the years is a macro
that expands to the current function, something like ?MODULE. I don't
suppose there is one lurking somewhere in Erlang...?

2008/8/15 Matt Williamson <dawsdesign@REDACTED>

> You should trust the macro. It must use a similar method to Python's
> because they are both compiled to bytecode and thus there wouldn't *really*
> be line numbers in either one.
>
> 2008/8/15 devdoer bird <devdoer2@REDACTED>
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> How can I do this without macro? I know python supply some tools to
>> determine the line number in run time,like inspect module.
>>
>>
>> 2008/8/16, Anders Nygren <anders.nygren@REDACTED>:
>>>
>>> 2008/8/15 devdoer bird <devdoer2@REDACTED>:
>>> > HI:
>>> >
>>> > I want to implement a function like "get_current_lineno()/0" to get the
>>> > current line number of the calling point?
>>> > Eg.
>>> > .....
>>> > ....
>>> > io:format("current line is ~w\n",[get_current_lineno()])
>>> > .....
>>> >
>>> > the above code will print the line number of the calling point in the
>>> source
>>> > file.
>>> >
>>> > How can I do this  in erlang?
>>>
>>> There is a predefined macro ?LINE that does that
>>> so
>>> io:format("current line is ~w\n",[?LINE])
>>>
>>> /Anders
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