From: Niklas Frykholm Date: 2002-01-31T09:04:49+09:00 Subject: Re: strange behavior [mengx@nielsenmedia.com]: > Exactly confusing. I myself never use the same name for both class > and instance methods(I can not think of a scenario for this). > I think I can safely assume that most people do not do this way. Well, there are plenty of examples in the standard library Array#[], Array.[] File#atime, File.atime File#chmod, File.chmod ... etc Sometimes, having the same name makes a lot of sense. // Niklas