From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-10-27T00:10:07+09:00
Subject: Re: why "::", not "."

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:

> You can also use double-colon for invocation:
>
> % ruby -e 'p Math::exp(1)'
> 2.71828182845905
>
> but that is frowned upon as non-idiomatic ruby.

Not so much non-idiomatic as archaic.

Kind of like using thee and thou, or goeth (as in "Pride goeth before
the fall") in modern English. <G>


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