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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:29:00 -0000
From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>
Subject: Re: Is is possible to use the name of a variable in the constructor?
In-reply-to: <200508010155.53152.gpiez@web.de>
To: Gunther Piez <gpiez@web.de>, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
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Hi Gunther,

The easiest way to implement your desired functionality is to make "passing
in the varname" a parameter, and by convention pass in the varname.

----------------------------------------------------------------
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using std::cout;
using std::endl;

struct uniform {
  uniform(std::string const& prettyVarname) {
    cout << "A variable called \x1B[32m"
      << prettyVarname
      << "\x1B[0m was just instantiated (sp)"
      << endl;
    }
};

void main() {
    uniform blah("blah");
}
----------------------------------------------------------------

HTH,
--Eljay