From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2007-01-23T03:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Method notation question

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 02:01 +0900, 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 must confess I really like the haystack syntax, especially because
it's not valid calling syntax in Ruby, but also because it's very
concise.


Cheers,
Daniel