From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T17:29:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Best name for "this method" ?

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

>>Binding.of_caller? Could you explain this more? I'm not sure to what you
>>are referring.
> Okay, I see. I did some research to understand. The problem I see with this is 
> that it might have too large an overhead --in effect creating a binding prior 
> to every method invocation. Is that so? On the other hand, I see no reason 
> for 'self' of caller not to be available.

Why? As you can see from my trace_func implementation Ruby already knows 
how to fetch the binding on demand (via ruby_frame->prev) -- it just 
doesn't provide a way to do it from within Ruby.

Regards,
Florian Gross