Get name of the calling instance

[developing]

Hey all ,

Is there a way to get the instance name at runtime? I had homework assignment to calculate great circle distance between two cities and a few conversions....Im done them all...except:

I instantiate two objects of the same type called A and B. Both A and B call method M.

I want to it so that if object A calls method M, M returns HEY, A. If object B calls method M, M returns HEY, B. I have my program working but I am convinced there has to be a better way to do this where the method M can tell which object is calling it and then decide what value to return....so is there a some built in member that can tell the name of the calling object?

I already googled but I am not even sure what to google for...

[Plater]

I am unaware of anything tha will do that explicitly.
If method M were a part of the class that A and B are, then it could look at internal members for the difference.
But without passing in a reference to the object in method M I'm not sure it can be done.

I think it's a little differently now but in the olden days:
int a=0;
int b=1;

"a" and "b" had no real meaning except the program, as when the program was compiled they were just symbols for memory addresses.