From: "marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2013-08-31T03:34:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56891] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8839] Class and module	should return the class or module that was opened


Issue #8839 has been updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune).


When thinking of potential incompatibilities, the only case I could think of where I'd ever used the result of `class` or `module` was:

    class << foo
      self
    end

Ironically, the proposed change would not introduce an incompatibility in this case :-)
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Feature #8839: Class and module should return the class or module that was opened
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8839#change-41439

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
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Category: 
Target version: 


With the change for https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/3753, "def" forms now return the symbolic name of the method defined. Because class and module bodies just return the last expression in their bodies, this means they will now usually end up returning a symbol for the last method defined. This does not seem useful or correct.

I think class and module should return a reference to the class or module just opened. This would make the return value useful and consistent.


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