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

From: Ruby Student <ruby.student@...>
Date: 2013-07-02 12:46:56 UTC
List: ruby-talk #408651
These are excellent replies. I tried *google* before I tried the forum and
it did not come up with anything useful.
Hopefully people will be able to find this discussion on *google* later on.

Thank you


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Robert Jackson <robert.w.jackson@me.com>wro=
te:

> These sorts of things are somewhat difficult to google for (I tried to
> find a nice article to reference, but couldn't find one quickly.), so
> hopefully this helps...
>
> The methods themselves do not have a '#' in front of them.
>
> The '#' is usually used to indicate an instance method and often '.' is
> used to indicate a class/module method.
>
> So given the following class:
>
> class FooBar
>   def self.say_hello
>     puts 'hello from a class method'
>   end
>
>   def say_hello
>     puts 'hello from an instance method'
>   end
> end
>
> FooBar#say_hello references the instance method.
> FooBar.say_hello references the class method.
>
> Robert Jackson
>
>   -- twitter:  rwjblue
>   -- github: rjackson
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Ruby Student <ruby.student@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Team,
> >
> > Please be easy on me, but I was wondering why methods that belong to th=
e
> Enumerable class have a # (pound) sign. For instance:
> >
> >       =95 #all?
> >       =95 #any?
> >       =95 #chunk
> >       =95 #collect
> > Etc.
> >
> > What is the meaining of the # there?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > --
> > Ruby Student
>
>
>


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