From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-23T02:04:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Method notation question

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> 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.

i like

   File::class_method

   File.instance_method

the reason is that both work in the shell without funky quoting unlike

   ri 'File#instance_method'  # egads that's a comment!

and is consitent with actual calling conventions.

using parens wouldn't do ri users any favours i think...

2 cts.

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