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Re: Accessing container's methods

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On 12/07/2015 11:10 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a class A, containing embedded embedded classes, which need to 
> access methods from A.
> .
> A highly contrived example, where I'm setting up an outer class in a 
> Has-a relationship, containing a number of Actors. The inner class needs 
> to access a method of the outer class; here the method get_name.
> 
> I don't really want to make Actor a sub-class (is-a; it isn't) of Monty; 
> that would raise all sorts of other problems.
> 
> Can anyone please advise me on how to achieve this magic?

You could add an attribute to each embedded object that provides a
reference back to the container object.

All in all, this design has a kind of smell to it.  Would it not be
better to ask the container class for information about the children,
rather than the other way around?  If a piece of code holds a reference
to the child object then it must also by definition hold a reference to
the container object, so why can't it ask the container object directly?

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Accessing container's methods Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-12-07 18:10 +0000
  Re: Accessing container's methods Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2015-12-07 18:21 +0000
  Re: Accessing container's methods Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-12-07 11:36 -0700
    Re: Accessing container's methods Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-07 20:03 +0100
  Re: Accessing container's methods Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-07 19:46 +0100
  Re: Accessing container's methods Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-12-07 19:59 +0100
  Re: Accessing container's methods Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-07 12:33 -0700
  Re: Accessing container's methods Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-07 16:38 -0500
  Re: Accessing container's methods Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-08 09:02 +1100
  Re: Accessing container's methods Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-07 23:47 +0000
    Re: Accessing container's methods Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-12-08 12:35 +0000
    Re: Accessing container's methods [solved] Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-12-08 13:46 +0000
    Re: Accessing container's methods Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-08 20:02 +0100
      Re: Accessing container's methods Vincent Vande Vyvre <vincent.vande.vyvre@telenet.be> - 2015-12-08 20:54 +0100
        Re: Accessing container's methods Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-08 23:51 +0100
      Re: Accessing container's methods Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-08 20:30 +0000
        Re: Accessing container's methods Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-08 23:52 +0100
          Re: Accessing container's methods Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-08 22:59 +0000
      Re: Accessing container's methods Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-08 22:37 +0000
      Re: Accessing container's methods Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-08 16:41 -0700
      Re: Accessing container's methods Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 12:04 +1100

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