Re: class instance question

I think he means something like this in C#, which can't be reliably done due
to compiler not caring about  the name of things.

public class Cat
{
    public string Name
    {
         return .....;
    }
}

Somewhere else:

var Fluffy = new Cat();
Assert.IsTrue( Fluffy.Name == "Fluffy" );


The implementation of the return method is his question?

Paul

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 15:36, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote:

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> In C, this is already solved - there are no classes :P
> Seriously, I don't even want to know what John is talking about. I did try
> to understand his question though...
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> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Shawn Wildermuth <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>  Um…in what environment?  Ruby? .NET? Java? C?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Shawn Wildermuth
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>> http://wildermuth.com
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>> Note: This was typed on a big ole laptop so any misspellings and
>> punctuations are completely my fault…not my phone’s.
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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
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>> Interesting, I do not know the answer, but instance names can be optimized
>> away.
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>> 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' ;)
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>> // Ryan
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>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:36 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to programmatically determine the name of an instance
>> of a class without having to hardcode the information?
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>> 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.
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