From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-04-09T23:17:17+09:00
Subject: capital method names

When I write:
  a = 1
or
  def a; return 1; end

I can access the variable or method the same:
  puts a

but if I write:
  A = 1
or
  def A; return 1; end

then I must write:
  puts A
to access the variable, or
  puts A()

to access the method.  This is a little bit inconvenient, since it means
I can't transparently replace constants with methods (it recently came
up when I had been using a constant to represent the number of seconds
since receiving data before I would sound an alarm, but later wanted to
make that number of seconds dependant on the time of the day, since more
data comes in at certain times of the day than others).

Is this a feature or an oversight?  I'm using Ruby 1.6.5; has this been
changed in newer versions?

Paul