From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T09:59:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby jargon and slang

D�a Streda 08 Febru�r 2006 22:53 Mark Volkmann nap�sal:
> On 2/8/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> > D�a Streda 08 Febru�r 2006 05:18 Mark Szpakowski nap�sal:
> > > Can someone point me to the page in the Pickaxe book where #-notation
> > > is defined? I can't find it through the index.
> >
> > That notation is defined in Pickaxe? Now this I want to see.
>
> See the "Notation Conventions" section in the Preface. In my copy of
> Pickaxe 2 it's on page xxix.
>
> --
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Partner, Object Computing, Inc.

See? Found it :P

I was a bit confused by you using the word "defined", I'd probably say 
"described", since Pickaxe isn't the reference document for conventions like 
this. Then again, it just might be, I can't recall how the notation (or its 
use in Ruby) originated and whether it was somehow canonized.

David Vallner