From: Gerald Ebberink <g.h.p.ebberink@...>
Date: 2007-01-31T21:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Accesing the name of an instance from within an method

Sorry I'm getting my langanges mixed up.

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From: burn.redmond.burn@gmail.com [mailto:burn.redmond.burn@gmail.com] 
Sent: woensdag 31 januari 2007 12:50
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Accesing the name of an instance from within an method

On Jan 31, 11:35 am, "Gerald Ebberink" <g.h.p.ebber...@nclr.nl> wrote:
>
> Now I come to think of it I could try to overload the = operater to let
some
> internal variable be changed when the reference is changed but then I
still
> need the name of the variable.

You can't overload the assignment operator. It's not a method. See
page 324 of the pickaxe.