Dave Thomas wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
Dave:

Thank you for your response, it's appreciated.

I didn't see that text before, honest.  Thank you for pointing it out
and I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time with such a silly question.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Brad