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Can the code of a function obtain the names of its arguments?

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• Subject: [mg124391] Can the code of a function obtain the names of its arguments?
• From: James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org>
• Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:59:30 -0500 (EST)
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I fear the answer is no, because I suspect that once values are bound to
the names, there might seem to be scant use in keeping the names around.

But I have a little debugging routine in mind I'd like to implement, so I'm
hoping the answer is yes. (And if yes, how?)

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