From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-02-03T00:16:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Silly question

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On Feb 2, 2004, at 8:59, Brad wrote:

> Hey thanks for the reply!  I kind of figured that the use of '#' 
> between
> a class and a method was only a documentation convention.  But it 
> wasn't
> clear what the notation was used to mean.  i.e. both # and . were used,
> but without explanation of the difference. :)
>

 From the preface:

Notation Conventions

Throughout this book, we use the following typographic notations.
. . .
Within the text, Fred#doIt is a reference to an instance method (doIt) 
of class Fred, while Fred.new  is a class method, and Fred::EOF is a 
class constant



Cheers

Dave

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