If I define two or more verbs tacitly like this:
act1 =: action
act2 =: action
...
how, inside the verb: action, can I identify the calling verb --
ideally as the literal name, eg 'act1'?
I can solve the problem ...
(a) by having the caller pass its own name as an argument in a rather
more complex tacit expression, eg
act1 =: action bind 'act1'
act2 =: action bind 'act2'
...
(b) by enabling suspension with: (13!:0)1 (in the caller of act1,
act2) and then inspecting the stack within action by means of 0{"1
(13!:13 '')
...which is what I'm using at present.
(a) is not out of the question, but complicates the code, especially
generated code.
And I don't like (b) -- besides being clumsy I anticipate gotchas in
the long term.
Am I right to feel edgy about (b), for general application?
Is there a neater way?
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