Re: class instance question

Interesting, I do not know the answer, but instance names can be optimized
away.
Lets say you have a solution for this problem, but then at runtime 'Fluffy'
may be named as 'Register12' or 'Stack@17' or maybe, just boringly, 'null'
;)

// Ryan

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:36 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
> Is there a way to programmatically determine the name of an instance
> of a class without having to hardcode the information?
>
> For example if I have a 'Cat' class and I have an instance of that
> class named 'Fluffy' assuming the Cat class has a 'Name' member
> variable that can hold the information, is there a way to make
> 'Fluffy' determine its own name without having to tell it the
> information? Just curious... Thanks.
>  
>