Sorry I'm getting my langanges mixed up. Gerald Ebberink Laser Technician NCLR B.V. PO box 2662 Enschede 7500CR The Netherlands Work: 31 53 4891110 Direct: 31 53 4893961 Fax: 31 53 4891102 Email: g.h.p.ebberink / nclr.nl http://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldebberink Want a signature like this? -----Original Message----- From: burn.redmond.burn / gmail.com [mailto:burn.redmond.burn / gmail.com] Sent: woensdag 31 januari 2007 12:50 To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Accesing the name of an instance from within an method On Jan 31, 11:35 am, "Gerald Ebberink" <g.h.p.ebber... / nclr.nl> wrote: > > Now I come to think of it I could try to overload the = operater to let some > internal variable be changed when the reference is changed but then I still > need the name of the variable. You can't overload the assignment operator. It's not a method. See page 324 of the pickaxe.