From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T22:24:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Drop :: as a . synonym

Jeremy McAnally wrote:
> So, when we look at things like the schizophrenic "::" operator (haha
> I like that terminology), we have to ask: how should it have worked in
> the first place? :)

I don't actually see it as being all that schizo:

# at toplevel
foo # a call
Foo # a constant

# within a module
Bar::foo # a call
Bar::Foo # a constant

Actually, perhaps the more reasonable change would be to eliminate . 
completely for method invocation, since obviously the above syntax works 
for all cases and better represents calling methods or accessing 
constants under a given namespace. So in actuality, it's . that needs to go!

'baz'::capitalize
Object::new

Are we being silly yet? :)

- Charlie