Method: Module#anonymous?

Defined in:
lib/core/facets/module/anonymous.rb

#anonymous? ⇒ Boolean

A module may or may not have a name.

module M; end M.name # => “M”

m = Module.new m.name # => “”

A module gets a name when it is first assigned to a constant. Either via the module or class keyword or by an explicit assignment:

m = Module.new # creates an anonymous module M = m # => m gets a name here as a side-effect m.name # => “M”

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/core/facets/module/anonymous.rb', line 18

def anonymous?
  # The name of an anonymous class is an empty
  # string in 1.8, and nil in 1.9.
  name.nil? || name.empty?
end