At 01:54 2017-02-14, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Mike, It is extremely hands in certain circumstances and can save you loads of extra programming work. However like yourself I tend to forget about it (as opposed to never knowing about it!!) and only after the event do I realise I could have made life easier for myself!!
I might have used it the odd time, but dodefault() does it for me.
I did check to see how much of it is in my app and was surprised to see "::" is used in 48 files. It turned out to be just notation. I use "::" for making clear in comments that something is a class (instead of an object) as in someclass:: and someclass::somemethod()
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Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko