Enclosing Object
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Is there a way for an object that is a field of another object to reference the enclosing object? Sort of like super references the parent object? For example: Type TOuterObject field innerobject : TInnerObject end type I want a method in TInnerObject to be able to call a method in TOuterObject without having to tell TInnerObject who TOuterObject is. It seems TInnerObject must know who it is a member of? Thanks, Jim |
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There is no such facility unless you save a reference to the parent object. |
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Seems like it would be handy and an easy thing to implement in the language. I would think internally the object must be aware of what object it is a member of. |
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>I would think internally the object must be aware of what object it is a member of. Nope. |
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In delphi, every object has a field called owner, handy eh? |
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That's part of its implementation, not the actual language. |
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I never said it was part of the language. It's part of the "object" implmentation which everything is descended from. |
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What if an object has more than one owner? I think the most elegant solution is to pass the 'owner' object along as a parameter on any methods you might want to invoke. |