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Feature #10771

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An easy way to get the source location of a constant

Added by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) about 9 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:67745]

Description

For constants, it is difficult to get the source location where it was (last) defined. I request either of the following to be implemented:

  • Tracepoint emits a signal when a constant is defined.

  • Implement a Constant class (similar to Method class) and a constant method (similar to method method) that behave as follows:

      foo1.rb
      1| module Foo
      2|   Bar = :bar
      3| end
      4| Foo.constant(:Bar) #=> #<Constant: Foo#Bar>
      5| Foo.constant(:Bar).source_location #=> ["foo1.rb", 2]
    
  • Implement Module#constant_source_location

      foo2.rb
      1| module Foo
      2|   Bar = :bar
      3| end
      4| Foo.constant_source_location(:Bar) #=> ["foo2.rb", 2]
    

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const_source_location.tar.gz (1.96 KB) const_source_location.tar.gz Patches against Ruby trunk jphelps (Jeremy Phelps), 06/26/2017 01:31 AM
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