Re: [access to instance of parent]Ridiculous question ?
Daniel Moyne wrote:
I thought there should have been an automatic record in the child
instance of the instance of the parent ; apparentltly java do not
care and it is up to the user to handle this as explained above.
Why should the callee automatically get information about the caller? If
you need to pass information, you should be using arguments--which is
what they're for. The closest analogue I know of in other languages
would be closures, where the information passed is lexical scope.
Note that I--as well as others--are assuming that you're trying to refer
to callers and callees via your references to "child" and "parent" as
opposed to the normal OOP concept of parent and child from inheritance.
If so, you should really fix up your terminology.
The need for this may appear in the following case and I think this
is quite typical : - you have a parent instance with its own methods
; everything works fine but you think that part of the code can be
profitably used by others objects ; then you decide to create
Some_Class to handle this. - unfortunately by doing so you loose the
direct connection with the methods of the parent instance which in my
case are (for some of them) still needed - this especially may appear
in handling events that will then be transferred to the child
instance where the process may still need to call some methods of the
parent.
Inner classes could be a way to go here; another alternative that could
be done is to create an interface and have the constructor take an
object of that interface.
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