named_var.go

//An experiment using `runtime/debug` package to see what info can
//be gotten in runtime.
package main

import (
	"log"
	"runtime/debug"
	"strings"
)

type A struct {
	name string
}

func (a A) Name() string {
	return "Indiana Jones"
}

type B struct{}

func (b B) No(n string) {
	var output = string(debug.Stack())
	var newStr = strings.Split(output, "\n")
	var trimmed = strings.TrimSpace(newStr[3])
	var split = strings.Split(trimmed, ".")
	var splitMore = split[len(split)-1]
	var finally = splitMore[:len(splitMore)-1]

	log.Println(output, "\n", finally)
}

func main() {
	var a = A{}
	B{}.No(a.Name())
}

output

2014/05/21 19:55:20 /Users/senthil/play/learn/go/call.go:20 (0x2046)
	B.No: var output = string(debug.Stack())
/Users/senthil/play/learn/go/call.go:32 (0x2307)
	main: B{}.No(a.Name())
/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.2/libexec/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:220 (0x1466f)
	main: main·main();
/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.2/libexec/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:1394 (0x16b90)
	goexit: runtime·goexit(void)

 Name()