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[ruby-talk:01704] Re: Conventions for our Ruby book

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-03 08:11:01 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1704
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01701] Re: Conventions for our Ruby book"
    on 00/03/03, Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:

|Dave! Here I have changed my mind. We could use the operator
|'::'. Goto Kentaro has mentioned, he would see '::' as namespace
|identification operator! And matz intended to use '::' for access of
|class methods. Only because there is no big difference (internally)
|between an instance and a class of an instance, the '::' operator can
|also be used for instance method invocation!

Using `::' for class methods are OK, I even recommend it.  But aren't
we discussing the notation for instance methods?  I vote for `#' for
instance methods.
							matz.

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