From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-11-12T22:36:10+09:00
Subject: Re: newby question

On 11/12/06, Alfonso <euoar@yahoo.es> wrote:
> Sorry for the too elemental question (don't know if this is the right
> place to make questions like this) I just have started with ruby, and
> don't understand the difference "::" "." I have read that :: is for
> accessing constants, but then I see, that, for example, I can make a new
> object like with ::new or .new. Could anyone explain that?

There is some overlap, but in general usage, use :: to access names
that are scoped within modules and use . to send messages (call)
methods.

At least while you are getting started, this is the easiest thing to remember.
pth