From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-04-03T01:30:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable names


On Apr 2, 2004, at 10:20, David King Landrith wrote:
> Is there any way to access the name of a given variable instance from 
> within it?  In other words, for any object x, is there C function to 
> which I can pass self to determine that the program calls it 'x'?

You have the file name and line number, and you may even have the file 
itself in SCRIPT_LINES, so you could cheat and find the name from that.

I'm interested in tis experiment: how often does it catch a problem 
that you didn't catch though unit testing? Putting that another way: 
how often do you see these type errors in testing, and how often in 
production?


Cheers

Dave