Instance names for classes

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Tony Clarke wrote:
> how can I get a class instance, e g a= b() to return its name, a?

The question is not meaningful -- "a" is not "its name", it's
just *a* name that happens for the time being to refer to
the instance.

If you need your objects to have names, you should explicitly
give them names, e.g.

   a = b()
   a.name = "fred"

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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