From: eregontp@...
Date: 2021-04-12T17:29:06+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:103409] [Ruby master Feature#17753] Add Module#namespace

Issue #17753 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


I think those edge cases are pretty rare.
Module#namespace would refer to the lexical parent when the module is created (with `module Name`) or when first assigned to a constant (`Name = Module.new`).

The first example of https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17753#note-8 would already need extremely contrived code like:
```ruby
module A
  module B
    module C
    end
  end
end

module M
  N = A::B::C
  module N
  end
  p N.namespace
end
```
and even then the value could still be useful.

In the end, the exact same caveats exist for Module#name and yet it's fine in practice.

A module is a namespace of constants.

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Feature #17753: Add Module#namespace
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17753#change-91504

* Author: tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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Given code like this:

```ruby
module A
  module B
    class C; end
    class D; end
  end
end
```

We can get from `C` to `B` like `C.outer_scope`, or to `A` like
`C.outer_scope.outer_scope`.

I want to use this in cases where I don't know the outer scope, but I
want to find constants that are "siblings" of a constant.  For example,
I can do `A::B::C.outer_scope.constants` to find the list of "sibling"
constants to `C`.  I want to use this feature when walking objects and
introspecting.  For example:

```ruby
ObjectSpace.each_object(Class) do |k|
  p siblings: k.outer_scope.constants
end
```

I've attached a patch that implements this feature, and there is a pull request on GitHub [here](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4326).

---Files--------------------------------
0001-Add-Module-outer_scope.patch (5.93 KB)
0001-Add-Module-namespace.patch (5.89 KB)


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