Get anonymous function name

Question

How to get the the variable name from within a function in this example:

// it should return A
var A = function(){ console.log(this.name); } 

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread, but still in search results. so just for reference:

a solution could simply be using the stacktrace.

var stack = new Error().stack;

use trim and split to get to the desired values.