reflective information in classes

[bob54]

Say I have a class foo, and that one of its fields is a pointer to an instance of itself:

class foo
{

int x;

foo y;


}

When the constructor for foo is called, I want it to initialize the value of the y field to the instance of foo that just got constructed.

foo()
{
y=THIS INSTANCE OF foo just now constructed
}

I'm not sure how to do this. Any suggestions?

 

[wushutwist]

Don't know why (or y) you would want to do this since the instance already has implicit access to itself but the solution is:

y = this;

Again, this makes no sense. Explain the reasoning behind wanting to do this and we will be able to help you with a solution to your problem.