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

Old question, and I don't know if this works on a native IE 7 & 8 browser (I'm using the developer tools emulator), but I've given functions a name property on the constructor for gag inducing IE code before....

function sayMyName(func){
    var name=func.name || func.constructor.name
    alert(name);

}

var ieGivesMeNightTerrors=function(){
    //there there, these ugly workarounds aren't your fault
};
ieGivesMeNightTerrors.constructor.name=ieGivesMeNightTerrors;
sayMyName(myFunc);