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

[Matt Williamson]

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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