From: Bryan Zarnett <bryan_zarnett@...>
Date: 2001-02-20T02:13:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11123] Re: Auto-magically determine your class/method in Ruby

I agree, having the calling class as part of caller
would be great. Having the line number their is an
excellent bonus!!!

B.



--- Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote:
> 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
> 


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