What are names starting with the ":", are they variables, constants or something else?

drjay

well i figured it out btw. so for anyone in the future looking to do something similar to the java code above:


#arguments
inFile = ARGV[0]
outFile = ARGV[1]

def foo(infile, outfile)...

i'm a java c/c++ person. trying out ruby for the 1st time!

how do i do something like this in ruby:


//this is java
public static void main ( String args [] ) {
File inFile = new File (...