Geekiness

Java is a great language, but it’s missing a feature present in its cousin languages, C++ and C. The feature is the builtin macros __FILE__ and __LINE__. These are often quite useful for debugging, etc. Well, even though Java doesn’t have them as builins, you can still make your own.

public class MacroHack {
   public static String __FILE__() {
      return new Throwable().getStackTrace()[1].getFileName();
   }
   public static int __LINE__() {
      return new Throwable().getStackTrace()[1].getLineNumber();
   }
}
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