From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T02:54:49+09:00
Subject: Re: :: and .

mortee wrote:
> 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.

Ah yes, after seeing the other posts in this thread, I have to add that
it only applies if the name after the :: starts with a capital letter.
Of course you can't have constants starting with lowercase letters, so

MyModule::some_member

is also a method call.

mortee