From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2007-01-23T01:00:06+09:00
Subject: Method notation question

I've been using Ruby for years, and it just occurred to me to ask:
where did the convention of referring to methods using a
hash/pound/octothorpe symbol (#), as in "#foo" or "MyClass#bar", come
from?  Is it a Smalltalk thing, or what?

Avdi