From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T22:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this old style Ruby?

HI --

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 centrepins@gmail.com wrote:

> In Why's guide, I see the line:
>
> File::open( ...etc.
>
> Up 'til now I've always written this as:
>
> File.open( ...etc.
>
> (ie. using a . rather than a ::).  Am I right in thinking the :: for
> accessing class methods is now old-style?

I think it still works, though I don't see any advantage to it since
it introduces an unnecessary inconsistency (i.e., something other than
'.' in the position between receiver and message for some subset of
cases).


David

-- 
David A. Black
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