From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T11:11:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby jargon and slang

From: "David Vallner" david@vallner.net
> 
> 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.

I first encountered the Class#instance_method notation in Smalltalk,
which I'd been learning for a few months prior to encountering Ruby.

I figured it came from Smalltalk but I don't really know . . .



Regards,

Bill