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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Is this old style Ruby?
From:       Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk () rawuncut ! elitemail ! org>
Date:       2005-02-15 15:21:28
Message-ID: 20050215152106.GA5423 () puritan ! pcp ! ath ! cx
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* centrepins@gmail.com (Feb 15, 2005 16:16):
> So you would say use :: only for constant access, and use '.' for
> method access be it in a class or module?

Well class-methods are constant as well in a sense, hence the use of
"::" in Why's book and it being the (at least old-school) idiom,
	nikolai

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