From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T03:00:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Method Definitions

Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> writes:

> Though I can't really find a reason for `def' not to return a
> symbol. The discussion linked to seemed pretty unfocused.
>
> Can anyone give me a good reason *not* to have `def' return a symbol?

Maybe it would make "load" weird...

class Foo
  def bar; end
end

# ---
load 'foo.rb'  # => :bar

> Cheers,
> Daniel
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