From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-02-20T02:09:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11120] Re: Auto-magically determine your class/method in Ruby

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Bryan Zarnett <bryan_zarnett@yahoo.ca> writes:
> 
> > Is their a way to auto-magically determine the class
> > and method that called an operation in another class.
> > For example, I have a logger class that would like to
> > embed in the output line the Class and operation that
> > logged a message. I don't want to have to pass this
> > information as an argument if I have to.
> 
> This is Ruby. Of _course_ there is... :)
> 
> <Dave's nice solution...>
>
See, I told you. I never should have posted... :-)

BTW, wouldn't it be nicer if Kernel#caller included the calling object and
method? First time I encoutered it (the name) that's what I thought it
did.

/R