Re: address "from"

[Pietro Terna]

At 13.23 01/01/99 -0600, you wrote:
>At 06:38 PM 1/1/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>>      Hi all,
>>
>>      I'm looking for a solution to the followin small (big?) problem:
>>
>>object A is receiving a message from an unkown object; can object A
>>determine the  address of the object that is sending the message?
>>
>>      If it would be possible, I could simplify the design of my application
>>(now I'm simply planning of including 'self' as an argument of the message).
>>
>>      Pietro
>
>Pietro,
>
>I have come across the same desire to know who's calling, and as far as I
>have been able to determine, you have to include the id of the sender as an
>explicit parameter to achieve this. I have suggested to the swarm team and
>to Scott Christley that they change objectiveC to make the caller
>automagically available (the same way that 'self' is), but I was given to
>understand there would be some problems involved in doing that.
>
>Perhaps if more people were to request the feature ...
>
>Happy New Year!
>
>Sven
>

        Sven,

        many thanks. Now we are two ... (2 is << than 'more people' )

        Happy New Year, Pietro

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