From: "headius (Charles Nutter)" <headius@...>
Date: 2013-09-27T19:29:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57422] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8839] Class and module	should return the class or module that was opened


Issue #8839 has been updated by headius (Charles Nutter).


mame (Yusuke Endoh) wrote:
> How useful is this proposal?
> I think we should not change anything without consideration of use case.

One use:

my_class = class Foo
  ...
end

We can get the reference to a class being created immediately without adding "self" at the end. It also brings some equivalence with my_class = Class.new.

Another:

class Foo
  def self.init
    @foo = Foo.new
  end
end.init

The use cases I can think of are all fairly subtle, but I think they're valid.

Ultimately, the biggest reason I think this should happen is because class Foo; def bar; end; end returning :bar in 2.1 makes very little sense.
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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-42029

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: 
Target version: next minor


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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