On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:18 PM, clj123123 <ariela2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you James, this worked for me.
>
> On Apr 26, 4:11 pm, James Reeves <jree...@weavejester.com> wrote:
>> On 27 April 2011 00:05, clj123123 <ariela2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a function:
>>
>> > (defn abc [] (println "blah"))
>>
>> > (defn blah2 [f] (println f))
>>
>> > (blah2 abc)
>>
>> > I need to print out the name of the function passed to blah2.
>>
>> Then you want something like:
>>
>>   (defn blah2 [f] (println (:name (meta f))))

It has some limitations, though. Specifically, it won't work with
local functions, even named ones:

user=> (:name (meta (fn foo [] 42)))
nil
user=> (letfn [(foo [] 42)] (:name (meta foo)))
nil

Only defn seems to attach name metadata to a function.

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