From: Kedar Mhaswade Date: 2013-03-14T23:02:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Understanding Ruby Classes, Objects and Methods. Joel Pearson wrote in post #1101600: > Robert is right, your wording is a bit off on this one: > > * “abc” is an instance of String * > > "abc" is a shortcut (syntactic sugar?) for String.new("abc") Thank you. Corrected. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.