From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T01:32:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this old style Ruby?

* David A. Black (Feb 15, 2005 17:10):
> > Well class-methods are constant as well in a sense, hence the use of
> > "::" in Why's book and it being the (at least old-school) idiom,

> I disagree; I don't think class methods are constant in any sense, any
> more than any other method definition.  They're basically just
> per-object/singleton method definitions:

True.  Still, there's a subtle difference.  I agree, however, that
there's really no good reason to use "::" in this case; I certainly
write

File.open ...

rather than

File::open ...

which is one symbol longer and doesn't make it easier to read,
	nikolai

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