From: "rmagick@..." <rmagick@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T22:33:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question about the # symbol

# is not Ruby syntax, it's a documentation convention that denotes
"instance method," as in "kind_of? is an instance method of Object" as
opposed to "class method," which is distinguished by a period between
the class name and the method name.