Strings as function names (again)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <wolfram.666028267 at ikki> wolfram at ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) writes:
>>One is that you have to tell it a path to the executable file, and
>>that is not in general available for the currently-executing process.
>
>Sure? How about argv[0] ?

argv[0] usually, but not always, contains the name under which the program
was invoked.  That has no guaranteed relationship to its pathname.
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