Is there a way to get the current function from within the current function?

Question

Sorry for the really weird title, but here’s what I’m trying to do:

var f1 = function (param1, param2) {      // Is there a way to get an object that is ‘f1’     // (the current function)?  }; 

As you can see, I would like to access the current function from within an anonymous function.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Name it.

var f1 = function fOne() {     console.log(fOne); //fOne is reference to this function } console.log(fOne); //undefined - this is good, fOne does not pollute global context 

Answer 2

Yes – arguments.callee is the current function.

NOTE: This is deprecated in ECMAScript 5, and may cause a performance hit for tail-call recursion and the like. However, it does work in most major browsers.

In your case, f1 will also work.