From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-04-11T03:29:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Quick syntax question

On 4/10/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/10/06, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's good to know. I can't see any reason to prefer the second over
> > the first. It's a lot more noisy.
>
> When you're defining a lot of class methods, class << self makes
> sense. One or two? Then you may as well use def self.foo if you can.

Just expressing personal preference ... even in that case I prefer the
first form (using self. on each class method). That way when I look at
a method, it's immediate obvious that it's a class method if the name
starts with "self.". Otherwise I have to lookup upward in the code to
see if the method is contained in a "class << self"

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.