Hi,

The question is: how can a subroutine find out the name of it's caller? (I'm not looking for the solution when the caller sub puts it's name in an argument)

To clarify my question, suppose there we have theses subs:

    sub LOG;
    sub do_this {
         ....;
         ....;
         LOG "a message";
    }
    sub do_that {
         ....;
         ....;
         LOG "another message...";
    }

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How should the LOG sub look like when I want to see this output: 
LOG: sub "do_this" says: "a message"
LOG: sub "do_that" says: "another message..."

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Thanks for your trouble.

In reply to how can a subroutine find out the name of it's caller? by Anonymous Monk

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