# class Prism::ElseNode

Represents an ‘else` clause in a `case`, `if`, or `unless` statement.

    if a then b else c end
                ^^^^^^^^^^

### Attributes

else_keyword_loc[R]

attr_reader `else_keyword_loc`: `Location`

end_keyword_loc[R]

attr_reader `end_keyword_loc`: `Location`?

statements[R]

attr_reader statements: `StatementsNode`?

### Public Class Methods

new(else_keyword_loc, statements, end_keyword_loc, location) click to toggle source

def initialize: (`else_keyword_loc`: `Location`, statements: `StatementsNode`?, `end_keyword_loc`: `Location`?, location: `Location`) -> void

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5575
    def initialize(else_keyword_loc, statements, end_keyword_loc, location)
      @else_keyword_loc = else_keyword_loc
      @statements = statements
      @end_keyword_loc = end_keyword_loc
      @location = location
    end

type() click to toggle source

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 lib/prism/node.rb, line 5670
    def self.type
      :else_node
    end

### Public Instance Methods

accept(visitor) click to toggle source

def accept: (visitor: `Visitor`) -> void

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5583
    def accept(visitor)
      visitor.visit_else_node(self)
    end

child_nodes() click to toggle source

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

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5588
    def child_nodes
      [statements]
    end

Also aliased as: deconstruct
comment_targets() click to toggle source

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

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5600
    def comment_targets
      [else_keyword_loc, *statements, *end_keyword_loc]
    end

compact_child_nodes() click to toggle source

def `compact_child_nodes`: () -> Array

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5593
    def compact_child_nodes
      compact = []
      compact << statements if statements
      compact
    end

copy(**params) click to toggle source

def copy: (**params) -> `ElseNode`

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5605
    def copy(**params)
      ElseNode.new(
        params.fetch(:else_keyword_loc) { else_keyword_loc },
        params.fetch(:statements) { statements },
        params.fetch(:end_keyword_loc) { end_keyword_loc },
        params.fetch(:location) { location },
      )
    end

deconstruct()

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

Alias for: child_nodes
deconstruct_keys(keys) click to toggle source

def `deconstruct_keys`: (keys: Array) -> Hash[Symbol, nil | `Node` | Array | `String` | `Token` | Array | Location]

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5618
    def deconstruct_keys(keys)
      { else_keyword_loc: else_keyword_loc, statements: statements, end_keyword_loc: end_keyword_loc, location: location }
    end

else_keyword() click to toggle source

def `else_keyword`: () -> `String`

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5623
    def else_keyword
      else_keyword_loc.slice
    end

end_keyword() click to toggle source

def `end_keyword`: () -> `String`?

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5628
    def end_keyword
      end_keyword_loc&.slice
    end

inspect(inspector = NodeInspector.new) click to toggle source

def inspect(inspector: NodeInspector) -> `String`

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5633
    def inspect(inspector = NodeInspector.new)
      inspector << inspector.header(self)
      inspector << "├── else_keyword_loc: #{inspector.location(else_keyword_loc)}\n"
      if (statements = self.statements).nil?
        inspector << "├── statements: ∅\n"
      else
        inspector << "├── statements:\n"
        inspector << statements.inspect(inspector.child_inspector("│   ")).delete_prefix(inspector.prefix)
      end
      inspector << "└── end_keyword_loc: #{inspector.location(end_keyword_loc)}\n"
      inspector.to_str
    end

type() click to toggle source

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`

    # File lib/prism/node.rb, line 5660
    def type
      :else_node
    end