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parent() public

Our parent CodeObject. The parent may be missing for classes loaded from legacy RI data stores.

# File lib/rdoc/code_object.rb, line 316
  def parent
    return @parent if @parent
    return nil unless @parent_name

    if @parent_class == RDoc::TopLevel then
      @parent = @store.add_file @parent_name
    else
      @parent = @store.find_class_or_module @parent_name

      return @parent if @parent

      begin
        @parent = @store.load_class @parent_name
      rescue RDoc::Store::MissingFileError
        nil
      end
    end
  end

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