From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T02:29:18+09:00
Subject: Re: :: and .

joey eisma wrote:
> hi!
> 
> reading through some tutorial, i noticed the author would interchange
> using :: and . to call methods. i see they both give the same result.
> 
> 
> i was wondering if there is any other difference between the two?
> (other than convenience maybe?). when would you use one over the
> other?

It's described somewhere in the pickaxe book. IIRC when you access a
member of a module using ::, without trailing parentheses, then it's
considered accessing a constant. All other cases are method calls.

mortee