While that is a perfectly reasonable solution to the minimal example I provided, there may be reasons to abstract away the concept.
Personally, I like having some sort of structure in memory that allows me to access and query contextual information. It's amazingly useful if you are trying to link a variety of different elements. In fact it's practically unavoidable if you are writing highly dynamic code. Trying to manage this sort of system with a few variables and functions would become a nightmare.
In fact, those dynamic situations are where comments describing layout are absolutely critical. In these situations you may be using your class as a generalization, and tracking the full extent of this sort of interaction could take a ridiculous amount of time.
Personally, I like having some sort of structure in memory that allows me to access and query contextual information. It's amazingly useful if you are trying to link a variety of different elements. In fact it's practically unavoidable if you are writing highly dynamic code. Trying to manage this sort of system with a few variables and functions would become a nightmare.
In fact, those dynamic situations are where comments describing layout are absolutely critical. In these situations you may be using your class as a generalization, and tracking the full extent of this sort of interaction could take a ridiculous amount of time.