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Re: Why the use of a pound (#) sign with Enumerable

From: Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>
Date: 2013-07-01 20:18:30 UTC
List: ruby-talk #408626
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Ruby Student <ruby.student@gmail.com> wrote:

> Please be easy on me, but I was wondering why methods that belong to the
> Enumerable class have a # (pound) sign. For instance:
>
> #all?
...
> What is the meaining of the # there?

It's not just Enumerable, it's all Ruby classes.  The # denotes an
instance method (in docs, not code), while :: is used for class/module
methods (in both docs and code).

So for instance if we have class Foo, with instance-method bar and
class-method quux, bar would be *documented* as Foo#bar and *used in
code* as whatever_you_call_your_variable.bar, which is why we can't
document it that way (we don't know what the variable name will be).

Meanwhile, quux would generally be documented as Foo::quux... and
could be used as *either* Foo::quux or Foo.quux.  That's why
documenting instance methods with the classname and a dot could lead
to confusion.

-Dave

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