Term meaning "Class or Module"

[Intransition]

Anyone have a term, for an attribute name, meaning "Class or Module".
I probably would just use #class but that's a keyword so that's out.
So far I've tried #scope and #namespace, but neither seem quite right.
Any suggestions?

 

[Jacob Mitchell]

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People sometimes use "klass". As for module, I haven't ever found a need
for that, but perhaps "component" would be good.

 

[Chris Mear]

Anyone have a term, for an attribute name, meaning "Class or Module".
I probably would just use #class but that's a keyword so that's out.
So far I've tried #scope and #namespace, but neither seem quite right.
Any suggestions?

I've seen the deliberate mispelling #klass used before.

Chris

 

[Jesús Gabriel y Galán]

Anyone have a term, for an attribute name, meaning "Class or Module".
I probably would just use #class but that's a keyword so that's out.
So far I've tried #scope and #namespace, but neither seem quite right.
Any suggestions?

class_or_module ?

Jesus.

 

[Caleb Clausen]

Anyone have a term, for an attribute name, meaning "Class or Module".
I probably would just use #class but that's a keyword so that's out.
So far I've tried #scope and #namespace, but neither seem quite right.
Any suggestions?

#class is a perfectly fine name for a method. So is #module. Ruby is,
as you nknow very forgiving about letting you use keywords for method
names. Unless this method is going to be called without a receiver
(inside the class where you define it) a lot, there will be no
awkwardness about calling it.

 

[Xavier Noria]

#class is a perfectly fine name for a method. So is #module. Ruby is,
as you nknow very forgiving about letting you use keywords for method
names. Unless this method is going to be called without a receiver
(inside the class where you define it) a lot, there will be no
awkwardness about calling it.

That's correct but it would override Object#class though, probably not
a good idea.

 

[Andrew Wagner]

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I would tend to call it a module, since a class is_a module, and I'm
guessing it's probably the only subclass of module.

 

[Benoit Daloze]

I would tend to call it a module, since a class is_a module, and I'm
guessing it's probably the only subclass of module.

Agreed.
And for the name, I already met some 'mod' (if 'module' can not work),
which is better than 'klass' to my eyes.
(Wrong spelling just hurts)

B.D.