From: mengx@...
Date: 2002-02-01T03:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: strange behavior

I agree. Basically, we end up with trading one convenience for another.

> 
> I think that requiring the qualifier is desireable because it
> maintains the clarity betwen class and instance methods. As Niklas
> pointed out, there are times when using the same name between
> class#method and class.method makes sense. Automatically falling back
> to #method if .method doesn't exist would, I think, add a special case
> to the parser and may lead to suprising and undesirable results.
> 
> -- alan
> 
> -- 
> Alan Chen
> Digikata LLC
> http://digikata.com>