From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-24T10:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible from a class to grab the name of the object instance?

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rubisher wrote:

| The idea was that as far as ruby is interpreded, it have to save
| variable name somewhere in clear with its id and for debuging reason it
| could be accessible somehow. But ok it's not possible and for me it's
| just nice to know.

Well, you could modify your MyClass#initialize method to do something
similar.

Add a global variable or something similar, and add the object to this
variable (for example a Hash, with the variable name as key, and the
object's class as value).

Though, you'd have to intercept the assignment somehow to grab the
variable name.

HTH,
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