| From: | Allan Odgaard |
| Date: | 24 Jul 2000 at 00:01:30 |
| Subject: | Re: Going OO Nuts and Source Repository |
On 23-Jul-00, Alastair M. Robinson wrote:
> [...] (Calling functions "methods", and invoking them
> "sending messages" doesn't help either!)
I think the terminology comes from SmallTalk, where objects actually
received a message.
I'm quite sure the C++ standard defines 'methods' as member functions
and 'attributes' as member data. But the unlogical terms are shorter,
thus most used ;-)
Regards Allan
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