From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-05-03T20:36:40+09:00
Subject: Re: IDs of the reference

ts wrote:

>>>>>>"P" == Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>
>P> I realise that a and b both refer to the same object and thus have the 
>P> same id, this is not a problem. What I would like is the id of the 
>P> reference so that I can tell that  ref a although pointing to the same 
>P> object as ref b is not infact the same ref.
>
> If I've well understood what you call the id of the reference is just the
> name of variable :-)))
>
> In your example, you have 2 variables `a' and `b' which make reference to
> the same object `Fred.new'
>
> What do you want to do with this ?
>
>
>Guy Decoux
>
>

I was hoping that from inside a class, in a method, I could work out 
which reference was trying to call the method. The variable name is not 
necessarily unique but somewhere within Ruby the a and b references must 
be held even if they point to the same object.

I'm work out a solution to the const correctness problem currently on 
RubyGarden.

Peter Hickman (aka peterhi)