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How do I get the name of the variable within the object?

Dec 30th, 2002 12:16
Zoltan Budai, Mark Filipak,

This question has already been answered. See this question:

  How do I expose the properties of an object?

You will find your answer there. -- Mark Filipak


Not really..
Here is an example to make it clear:

function ThisIsATest {
  this.something=3
  this.hello=test_hello
  this.test=test_test
}
function test_hello {
  alert("The value is: "+this.something)
}
function test_test {
  // ??
}

var o=new ThisIsATest();

Now, is there a way to get the name of the
variable (in this case "o") from within the object?
So that it would be possible to write in test_test:

document.write("o.hello()")

Without knowing the name of the variable with
which the object was created...