From: wannes <oeaniz@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T06:02:48+09:00
Subject: Re: class#method notation

On 18/10/05, guoxiaotian@gmail.com <guoxiaotian@gmail.com> wrote:
> what's the purpose of Ruby's Foo#bar notation(what's wrong with
> Foo.bar)? does this mean class Foo's instance method bar or Foo's class
> method bar, or both?

They both have different meanings:

Foo#bar : bar is an instance method of the class Foo
Foo.bar : bar is a class method of the class Foo

Hopes this helps a bit.

grtz,
wannes