Re: Package name

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

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I think the idea is to have something like a pragma or attribute that lets
you get the name of the module you are in as a string. I have frequently
wished I could write a more general exception handler (or error handler or
simple messages at runtime...) by having something like "Context'Image" or
some other function that would provide the fully qualified name of the
subprogram, package, whatever that I am currently in. Example:

package body Some_Package is
    procedure Some_Procedure is
        ....
        Put_Line ("Running in: " & Current_Context'Image) ;

having that print:

Running in: Standard.Some_Package.Some_Procedure

It would be useful for diagnostics in the event of various errors or other
conditions. Maybe even have "Current_Context'Line_Number" and similar
capabilities? One would wish that Exception_Message and
Exception_Information had this sort of information in their returned strings
(Never seen it myself in the implementations I've used), but I think you'd
want it to be available without an exception being raised.

And of course, one could also want some sort of access to the dynamic
context as well. (The call stack). There's no limit to the things I can
want. But as my mother used to observe, "People in Hell want ice water,
too!"  :-)

MDC
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrn9g509m.f4.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> On Wed, 16 May 2001 14:56:38 +0200, Atle R�stad wrote:
> > Is it possible to print out the package name?
> >
> > It would be a nice feature in tracing. Maybe even print the
> > procedure/function name.
>
> What do you mean?
>
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