From: Kevin Ballard <kballard@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T06:31:58+09:00
Subject: Re: class#method notation


wannes wrote:
> 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

You can also use Foo::bar to mean a class method, but that form is
traditionally used to refer to constants rather than methods.