Represents the use of the ‘__ENCODING__` keyword.
__ENCODING__ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15424
def initialize(location)
  @location = location
end
          
        
      def initialize: (location: Location) -> void
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15493
def self.type
  :source_encoding_node
end
          
        
      Similar to type, this method returns a symbol that you can use for splitting on the type of the node without having to do a long === chain. Note that like type, it will still be slower than using == for a single class, but should be faster in a case statement or an array comparison.
def self.type: () -> Symbol
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15429
def accept(visitor)
  visitor.visit_source_encoding_node(self)
end
          
        
      def accept: (visitor: Visitor) -> void
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15434
def child_nodes
  []
end
          
        
      def child_nodes: () -> Array[nil | Node]
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15444
def comment_targets
  []
end
          
        
      def comment_targets: () -> Array[Node | Location]
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15439
def compact_child_nodes
  []
end
          
        
      def compact_child_nodes: () -> Array
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15449
def copy(**params)
  SourceEncodingNode.new(
    params.fetch(:location) { location },
  )
end
          
        
      def copy: (**params) -> SourceEncodingNode
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15459
def deconstruct_keys(keys)
  { location: location }
end
          
        
      
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15464
def inspect(inspector = NodeInspector.new)
  inspector << inspector.header(self)
  inspector.to_str
end
          
        
      def inspect(inspector: NodeInspector) -> String
          
            # File tmp/rubies/ruby-3.3.0/lib/prism/node.rb, line 15483
def type
  :source_encoding_node
end
          
        
      Sometimes you want to check an instance of a node against a list of classes to see what kind of behavior to perform. Usually this is done by calling ‘[cls1, cls2].include?(node.class)` or putting the node into a case statement and doing `case node; when cls1; when cls2; end`. Both of these approaches are relatively slow because of the constant lookups, method calls, and/or array allocations.
Instead, you can call type, which will return to you a symbol that you can use for comparison. This is faster than the other approaches because it uses a single integer comparison, but also because if you’re on CRuby you can take advantage of the fact that case statements with all symbol keys will use a jump table.
def type: () -> Symbol