From: Alex Fenton <aff28@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T01:34:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Inspetting a method's caller

Alberto Santini wrote:
>> but you can make the caller send in an extra argument, putting its
>> description/ID/Name there.
> 
> Of course i can, i just *don't want* to do this. For example, imagine i 
> want to access a database table that (by -> convention <-) has the same 
> name of a class. Imagine i have a DBHelper class that contains a 
> DBHelper#find method used to find records on the database. if 
> DBHelper#find is called from a Ball object i want to lookup on the 
> "ball" table, it it's called from a Cube object i want to search the 
> "cube" table, etc. 

Perhaps your DBHelper class would be better designed as a module that is 
included in the Ball/Cube.etc classes, or extends its instances?

alex