From: Florian Gross <florgro@...>
Date: 2007-04-08T20:23:50+09:00
Subject: Re: different between Door::new and Door.new

The :: operator and the . operator only behave differently when
constants are involved AFAIK.

Foo::Bar will only look for the constant and raise an exception
otherwise.
Foo::Bar() and Foo::Bar X will only look for a method.
Foo.Bar will only look for a method.

Otherwise the :: operator is equivalent to the . operator, even for
non-module/class objects:

5::to_s # => "5"
5::+ 6 # => 11