Get Scala variable name at runtime

Question

Is it possible to get the name of a scala variable at runtime?

E.g. is it possible to write a function getIntVarName(variable: Int): String behaving as

Answer 1

I don't think it's possible to get the name of a variable, but you can try it with objects:

object Test1 {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    object MyVar {
      def value = 1
    }
    println(MyVar.getClass)
  }
}

This prints: class Test1$MyVar$2$. So you can get 'MyVar' out of it.