From: ser@... (Sean Russell)
Date: 2004-07-11T04:02:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Ruby (Re: Why I don't use Ruby.)

Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<2DLHc.994640$Pk3.653188@pd7tw1no>...
> I'd say that the difference between a function and a method is that a
> method has a distinguished argument, 'this', *within whose scope it
> runs*. It's not a matter of Obj knowing about foo, or foo knowing about
> Obj, it's a matter of Obj defining its own personal scope within which
> foo is run.

I'd agree with this, although this is usually more of an
implementation than a paradigmatic distinction.  OO defines methods as
messages sent to objects.

--- SER