Represents an array literal. This can be a regular array using brackets or a special array using % like %w or %i.

[1, 2, 3]
^^^^^^^^^
Attributes
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protected attr_reader flags: Integer

Read

Represent the list of zero or more [non-void expressions](github.com/ruby/prism/blob/main/docs/parsing_rules.md#non-void-expression) within the array.

Class Methods

def initialize: (Integer flags, Array elements, Location? opening_loc, Location? closing_loc, Location location) -> void

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

Instance Methods

Implements case-equality for the node. This is effectively == but without comparing the value of locations. Locations are checked only for presence.

def accept: (Visitor visitor) -> void

def child_nodes: () -> Array[nil | Node]

def closing: () -> String?

Represents the optional source location for the closing token.

[1,2,3]                 # "]"
%w[foo bar baz]         # "]"
%I(apple orange banana) # ")"
foo = 1, 2, 3           # nil

def comment_targets: () -> Array[Node | Location]

def contains_splat?: () -> bool

def copy: (?flags: Integer, ?elements: Array, ?opening_loc: Location?, ?closing_loc: Location?, ?location: Location) -> ArrayNode

An alias for child_nodes

def deconstruct_keys: (Array keys) -> { flags: Integer, elements: Array, opening_loc: Location?, closing_loc: Location?, location: Location }

def inspect -> String

def opening: () -> String?

Represents the optional source location for the opening token.

[1,2,3]                 # "["
%w[foo bar baz]         # "%w["
%I(apple orange banana) # "%I("
foo = 1, 2, 3           # nil

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