>>I have a moment of brain shortage, right now I can't see the forest for all the trees. Is it possible from within an object to know what is the name it's instantiated as? Given this code
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>>loCountries = NewObject('SqlTable','SQL.vcx')

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>>In this case I want the class SqlTable to understand that it's instantiated as loCountries. I am building a rather complicated generic class to work with SQL tables. My idea is that if I call the object for instance loCountries, my class can be smart enough to know that I want it to connect to the SQL table called Countries.
>*
>You may have given up on the idea, but, if I understand it correctly, and just for the fun of it:
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>

>***==================================
>DEFINE CLASS yourClass AS Custom
>***==================================
>	** Which would include this method as a member
>	
>	***************************
>	FUNCTION WhatVarAmIKnownAs
>	***************************
>	LOCAL i, lcRet, loi
>	LOCAL ARRAY aI[1]
>	*
>	lcRet = ""
>	*
>	AINSTANCE(aI, This.Class)
>	*
>	FOR i = 1 TO ALEN(aI)
>		loi = EVALUATE("m." + aI[m.i])
>		IF m.loi = This
>			lcRet = aI[m.i]
>			EXIT
>		ENDIF
>	ENDFOR
>	RETURN (m.lcRet)
>
>ENDDEFINE
>

Nice, it works just fine. However, I realized that it wasn't a good idea after all.