From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-04-03T06:28:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable names

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:30:34AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

This looks like a restricted version of Eivind Eklund's types.rb. Here's
what the author had to say about it:

"The reason I didn't do any particularly public release of it was
that I found that adding type checks to ruby programs were worse
than useless for me - it got in the way of my refactoring, without
catching many bugs."

See http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/84841.

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