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

[Ahmed Ali]

Hi All,

This discussion is interesting. Just wanted to know if it is possible
to get the function that called current function. Is this possible?

Best regards,

Ahmed Al-Issaei

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Mats Cronqvist
<mats.cronqvist@REDACTED> wrote:
> Ulf Wiger wrote:
>> I should perhaps bring special notation to the smiley at the
>> end of my message. (:
>>
>> Whether or not the solution is cool is surely a matter of
>> taste - but I believe that the one who first came up with it
>> was Mats Cronqvist, the champion of obfuscated Erlang
>> code. (:
>>
>  thanks for the endorsement...
>
>  for the record, i have since moved on to using this:
> -define(position,[process_info(self(),current_function),{line,?LINE}]).
>
>  sometimes adding this:
> proplists:lookup(source,?MODULE:module_info(compile)).
>
>  mats
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