Feature #11905: Change the 'class' keyword to return a symbol

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[yuki24 (Yuki Nishijima)]

Currently the class keyword returns nil:

class Person; end # => nil

It would be great if it could return a symbol instead:

class Person; end # => :Person

If we make it so we'll be able to do something like below:

private_constant class User
  ...
end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Related to Feature #8839: Class and module should return the class or module that was opened added

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

It returns the last value inside the block, as well as begin/end block, not nil.

[yuki24 (Yuki Nishijima)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

I am totally aware of the current behaviour that you mentioned, but I'll close this issue since this is a duplicate.