On Apr 19, 2010, at 20:53, Tomo Kazahaya wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Eric Hodel <drbrain / segment7.net> wrote: >> I've seen no de-facto mapping in the community of Foo.bar to either Foo::bar or Foo#bar. > > In Japanese Ruby community, it's likely that Foo.bar refers to Foo::bar, the class method. > For instance, in Japanese Ruby Reference Manual (http://doc.okkez.net/192/view/ -- it's in Japanese, sorry), > Foo.bar is the primary way to describe Foo::bar. > > In addition, Foo.#bar is used to describe a module function bar of module Foo. I will try to make RDoc's crossref support both class methods and instance methods sooner rather than later, hopefully for inclusion in 1.9.2. (I need to focus on RubyGems.)