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instance method

ObjectSpace::InternalObjectWrapper#type

type → symbol

ext/objspace/objspace.c View on GitHub ↗

static VALUE
iow_type(VALUE self)
{
    VALUE obj = (VALUE)DATA_PTR(self);
    return type2sym(BUILTIN_TYPE(obj));
}

Returns the type of the wrapped internal object as a symbol.

For example, an included module is represented internally as a T_ICLASS object:

Example

require 'objspace'

module M; end
class A; include M; end

iclass = ObjectSpace.internal_super_of(A)
iclass.type # => :T_ICLASS

The exact set of returned symbols is implementation specific.

See also #internal_object_id #inspect also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0