From: james@...
Date: 2002-04-11T05:58:47+09:00
Subject: RE: OO/Ruby Terminology

> > This is where I see a chance for confusion.  Message != method.
> > Ruby objects can respond to arbitrary messages in a variety of
> ways, and
> > yet the object may have no corresponding method.
>
> I'm not sure this is germane in an introductory OO course.  I tend to
> think not.

Interesting.  I would think that this distinction should be made early on,
so that mental habits don't need to be undone later on.  Sun's OO tutorial
discuses messages early on
(http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/concepts/message.html), yet
most Java documentation (books, articles) I see rarely use that
terminology.  Even Sun.

I suspect this is because the compiler forces instance.message to mean
instance.method, so, by and large, there's little reason to consider the
distinction.


James

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