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

I think your .give() solution is a little..verbose. What's wrong with:

Array.prototype.forEach = function () { ... };

?

Really, though, you should check for such a method's existence before supplying your own:

Array.prototype.forEach = Array.prototype.forEach || function () { ... };

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Since others will be led here wondering about function.name, there is a way to grab the name (obviously, it doesn't work on anonymous functions):

function getFnName(fn) {
    return (fn.toString().match(/function (.+?)\(/)||[,''])[1];
}