I would like to have a function that returns the name of the function in the argument, e.g.: function give_me_my_name(f::Function) return ??? (f); end such that give_me_my_name(sin) returns sin as a string. How do I do that?

Get the name of a function in the argument

sylvaticus July 26, 2020, 7:46pm 10

You may find interesting this macro that prints the name of the current function it is called from:

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