From: Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@...>
Date: 2002-05-03T20:46:02+09:00
Subject: Re: IDs of the reference

On 03.05 20:36, Peter Hickman wrote:
> 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.
> 

A reference is basically a pointer to the object. The object doesn't know
the references pointing to it. Also inside the object there is no way
of knowing from which reference it was called.

- Einar Karttunen