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it's freaking ugly, but something like this might work:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1009988/3823857

we could possibly modify it to handle multiple invocations in the same function by looking at line number, kind of like the console does?!

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still looking close to impossible, but this gives some hope:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/10276296/3823857

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ok, taking a different tack:
find the line number this was called from.
then use one of the tricks above to turn the calling function into a string
use the line number to figure out what line in that string it was invoked from
then use a basic regexp within that line to find "console.label(", and take whatever's inside the parens.

i'm not sure if getting the line number is the global line number, or the line number within that function.
either way, worth investigating:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3806596/3823857
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14172455/get-name-and-line-of-calling-function-in-node-js

caveat: we might have to handle this differently if it's in the global scope.

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this looks super promising!!
https://github.com/stacktracejs/stacktrace.js

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oh my gosh, yes, this looks soooo good:
https://www.stacktracejs.com/

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Actually you can do this?

const myVar = 'Hello'
Object.keys({myVar})[0]

// returns "myVar"

Do you want me to implement it @ClimbsRocks ?

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Omg, brilliant- yes please, @ans-4175 ! That's a much cleaner implementation than I had in mind.

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