From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T22:44:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question about the # symbol

On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:33 AM, rmagick@gmail.com wrote:

> # 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.

Class methods are also often shown as follows:

   MyClass::class_method

ri even seems to favor this notation.

James Edward Gray II