From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2007-01-23T02:01:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Method notation question


On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Curtis Summers wrote:

> Isn't this a PickAxe convention to differentiate the class methods
> (MyClass.class_method) from the instance methods
> (MyClass#instance_method)?


It predated the PickAxe--it was in a lot of Ruby documentation before  
that.

FWIW, I now regret carrying that forward into the book. I think I'd  
probably do

    string (in String)

rather than String#strip if I were doing it again.