On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 11:44 -0400, nathan forbes wrote: > > On May 27, 2011 11:34 AM, "William Case" <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > More and more I have noticed the use of a double colon [::]in coding > > explanations but have not noticed it actually used anywhere. Does > it > > mean anything other than being used as a format. > > > > For example, in a recent repo description: > > > > perl-DateTime-Format-Natural > > Description : > > DateTime::Format::Natural takes a string with a human > readable > > date/time and creates a machine readable one by applying > natural > > parsing logic. > > > > rsync uses the :: in its a man pages. There it seems to indicate a > > remote machine, but doesn't seem to be required. > > > > Just something I have been meaning to ask for a long time. > > > > -- > > Regards Bill > > Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32 > > Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1 > > > > -- > > users mailing list > > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > Well Perl and C++ use it as part of their syntax. In your example, the > module DateTime contains Format which contains Natural. So the full > name of Natural would be DateTime::Format::Natural. > > And in C++ it's used to display the scope of namespaces and classes, > and so on. For example if you had something like: > > namespace example { > class Hello { > static int myMethod(); > } > } > > In order to call myMethod() you would do example::Hello::myMethod(). > Thanks Nathan. Have played around with C but never C++ or Perl, so that explains my ignorance. Tried checking online. Google got confused. -- Regards Bill Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32 Evo.2.32, Emacs 23.2.1 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
