From: rubisher <rubisher@...>
Date: 2008-05-25T05:49:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible from a class to grab the name of the object instance?

Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
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> rubisher wrote:
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> | 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).
> 
Good, very good idea, I will investigate.

> Though, you'd have to intercept the assignment somehow to grab the
> variable name.
> 
Thanks a lot,
	r.

> HTH,
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