From: Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T04:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Dumb question: in documentation, why Object#method, and not Object.method ?

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?

Yes.