How to get the method name in a method in a sc file?

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Hello,

Is it possible to get the method name inside the method definition?
For example, this.methodName.postln posts the method name:

Object {
...

    aMethod { arg ...; 
        ...
        this.methodName.postln;
        ...
    }
}

best,

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Foo {
   getMethod { ^thisMethod }
}

See docs for Method.

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Thank you very much!

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might be nice to compile a complete list of pseudo-variables? (or does this already exist somewhere…)

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@semiquaver

might be nice to compile a complete list of pseudo-variables? (or does this already exist somewhere…)

Thank you, but I am having some difficulty understanding what you described.

I used what @jordan taught me in Unify the warning message: ('|server) not running. by prko · Pull Request #6796 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub

Server {
	ping { |n = 1, wait = 0.1, func|
 		var result = 0, pingFunc;
			this.checkRunning(
 			this.asCompileString ++ "." ++ thisMethod.asString.split($:)[1],
 			thisMethod.asString + "will NOT work."
	...
     	);
	...
 	checkRunning { |label, failMessage|
 		var msg;
 		if (this.serverRunning) { ^true };
 		msg = "server '%' not running.".format(this.name);
 		label !? { msg = "%\n   %".format(msg, label) };
 		failMessage !? { msg = "%\n%".format(msg, failMessage) };
 		msg.warn;
 		^false
 	}
 }

Example:

s.ping

WARNING: server ‘localhost’ not running.
s.ping
Server:ping will NOT work.
→ localhost

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These are the ones the IDE syntax highlighting knows about (thisFunction, thisFunctionDef, thisMethod, thisProcess, thisThread, currentEnvironment, topEnvironment)

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Lets move the conversion about keywords over here: Keywords in supercollider are weird as its a big one.