Find out name of PL/SQL procedure

Question

Can PL/SQL procedure in Oracle know it\'s own name?

Let me explain:

CREATE OR REPLACE procedure some_procedure is
    v_procedure_name varchar2(32);
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Answer 1

If you are pre-10g, you can 'dig' (parse) it out of dbms_utility.format_call_stack Procedures/functions in packages can be overloaded (and nested), so the package name/line number is normally better than the name.