From: Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@...>
Date: 2000-02-10T16:06:25+01:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01297] Re: Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ

Dave Thomas writes:

...

> We thought long and hard about this (and the jury's still
> out). Although there _is_ a distinction between A#s and A.s, is it
> significant to the end user? The normal convention is to show by
> example, so we felt that Proc.new was better--it shows both the name
> _and_ how to call it. IF we put Proc#new, we were worried people would 
> actually write it that way, and then bitch when they got syntax
> errors.

Good point for 'Proc.new'! But what is with 'Proc.call'? This was my
initial reason to propose the '<class>#<method>' syntax!

...

\cle