From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-04-05T21:56:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Autoconvert object from one class1 to other class2 in class1 def

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Luk Mus <support@fit4u.su> wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote in post #990955:
>>> or how get name of variable in class method?
>>
>> That's not possible either. The same object could be pointed to by many
>> variables (local and/or global and/or instance), or by none. For
>> example, maybe the only reference to the object is as a value in a Hash.
>
> But i can get object_id:
>
> class String
>  def get_id
>    puts self.__id__
>    puts self.object_id
>  end
> end
>
> Is it realy to get name by ID?

No, it isn't.  As Brian has pointed out already there can be arbitrary
many references to an object and they can be

- local variables
- member variables
- class variables
- Array entries
- Hash entries

Lik, what do you need this for?  What is the use case?

Cheers

robert

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