From: "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@...>
Date: 2003-09-16T01:51:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Dot versus double-colon

> > Personally, I don't like the :: anyway, as it reminds me
> > of C++.
> 
> I don't like :: for methods, because . makes sense for method calls on
> objects *and* classes, because .... well, you know why (*).
> 
> :: makes sense for namespaces - as in constant resolution.  It would
> not bother me one bit should :: be deprecated for method calls.

I would not argue against deprecating :: for method calls.

It seems to me, that in Ruby the "lookup in scope" operation is conceptually
different from the "send a message" operation.  I like that there are two
different operators for these operations. 

The fact that "::"  can also double for the "send a message" operation is
something I've ignored in the past.  In fact, I didn't realize until this
thread that "::" worked in normal instance method calls, I thought it only
worked with classes or modules.

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