function.name not supported in IE.

Question

Lately I\'ve become a huge fan of the function.name property.

For example, I\'ve written a function for extending prototypes.

It works in the w

Answer 1

You might be able to parse the function name from calling function.toString [docs]. function.name is not a standard property.

var name = func.toString().match(/^function\s*([^\s(]+)/)[1];

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As the comments also say, this is not necessarily a reliable way. Imo passing an object would be easier to read and you could pass several methods at once:

Array.give({
    forEach: function() { ... },
    somethingElse: function() {...}
});