From: "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T04:20:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question: in documentation, why Object#method, and not Object.method ?

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:17:30AM +0900, Elf M. Sternberg wrote:
> I keep seeing this syntax in documentation: Object#method, but in actual
> use sending a message to an object is usually 
> 
>         object = Object.new
>         object.method
> 
> Is this just to emphasize that method() operates on an instance of
> Object and not the class Object?

The # is a naming convention.

Class#method means method is an instance method.
Class::method means method is a class method.

For example, do

  ri IO.read

There is IO::read and IO#read.

marcel
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