On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:48:12 UTC, Ilias Sakellariou  wrote:
> Hello all, 
> recently in a test lib we are trying to implement we wanted to be able to 
> identify (report) the context (observer, turtle, etc) where a procedure was 
> called. Since NetLogo does not allow procedures/reporters run  by the 
> observer to include the "self" reporter, we ended up to a "solution" that 
> looks like this:
> 
> 
> 
> to-report caller
>   report run-result task [self]
> end
> 
> 
> which seems to work for the observer as well. I suspect I am abusing the task 
> mechanism, with the risk of the above not working in future versions, so may 
> I suggest a caller primitive should be added, that does exactly the above.
> 
> 
> I don't know if there is another way of doing this (apart from writing a Java 
> extension).
> thanks & regards, 
> Ilias

Thank you! This returns something called observer that is not a string, but 
can't be used in ask commands etc.  Just introducing an observer agent would 
make all this easier and more consistent.

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