From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2000-03-03T14:47:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01698] Re: Conventions for our Ruby book

Hi,

How can I read comp.lang.misc via Web? Do 'deja' or so help me?
I have no accessing route to Usenet...

> From: "Dave Thomas" <Dave@thomases.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 2:38 AM

> Existing Ruby documentation gets around this by using the '#'
> notation. It would say "see String#downcase" to refer to an instance
> method in String.
> 
> Although its a good differentiator, it worries us slightly, because it 
> isn't Ruby syntax. We though it might be confusing.

I wrote very small Ruby reference for my friends Ruby newbies,
who is good at Perl but did not know Java well. I described:

  'String.new' for class method
  'aString.downcase' for instance method

But they were confused about naming rules in Ruby before method type above...

I do not know about Smalltalk well, how about in Smalltalk world?

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NaHi, nakahiro, a.k.a. NAKAMURA, Hiroshi
http://www.sarion.com  Sarion Systems Research

# I'm sorry for my poor English...