From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T00:38:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Catching attr_accessor with set_trace_func

On 11/16/06, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:01:43 +0900,
> Wilson Bilkovich wrote in [ruby-talk:225298]:
> > Given:
> > @user.something.trace_me
> >
> > ..I am trying to 'unwind' the calling order, so that the 'trace_me'
> > method can get a reference to @user and :something.
> > I need to do this in a general way, where the name of the object
> > (@user), and the last message it was sent (:something) are not known
> > in advance.
>
> What do you expect when the receiver isn't assigned to any
> variable?
>

Something indicating that would be fine. I don't need a handle on
'intermediate' objects, just ones that have a real lexical existence
in source code.