RE: class instance question

Um.in what environment?  Ruby? .NET? Java? C?

 

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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Heath
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OT] 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.