RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree::Node instances are created by parse methods in RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.
This class is MRI specific.
Returns AST nodes under this one. Each kind of node has different children, depending on what kind of node it is.
The returned array may contain other nodes or nil
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# File ast.rb, line 133 def children __builtin_ast_node_children end
The column number in the source code where this AST’s text began.
# File ast.rb, line 106 def first_column __builtin_ast_node_first_column end
The line number in the source code where this AST’s text began.
# File ast.rb, line 98 def first_lineno __builtin_ast_node_first_lineno end
Returns debugging information about this node as a string.
# File ast.rb, line 141 def inspect __builtin_ast_node_inspect end
The column number in the source code where this AST’s text ended.
# File ast.rb, line 122 def last_column __builtin_ast_node_last_column end
The line number in the source code where this AST’s text ended.
# File ast.rb, line 114 def last_lineno __builtin_ast_node_last_lineno end
Returns the type of this node as a symbol.
root = RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.parse("x = 1 + 2") root.type # => :SCOPE lasgn = root.children[2] lasgn.type # => :LASGN call = lasgn.children[1] call.type # => :OPCALL
# File ast.rb, line 90 def type __builtin_ast_node_type end