From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-11-21T08:10:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Inner Class Relationship

On Nov 20, 2004, at 5:01 PM, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

> If I understand correctly, try passing self of parent to the the inner 
> object
> when it's created.
>
>   class Inner
>     def initialize( parent )
>       @parent = parent
>     end
>   end
>
>   class Outer
>     def initialize
>       Inner.new(self)
>     end
>   end
>
> With any luck, in the future we will have a "caller" method that can 
> refer to
> the parent object from Inner#initialize, i.e. without having to 
> specifically
> pass self. (Personally I've always thought #object_parent should be 
> built-in
> anyway.)

I don't know what it is about me and not being able to properly convey 
what I mean the first time.  :D

What you posted, is more or less what I'm doing.  My desire was to find 
a way around using a PUBLIC method in the outer class.  It's really a 
message that only the inner class should be able to send.

James Edward Gray II