From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2002-04-11T12:35:17+09:00 Subject: Re: OT: OO terminology In article <3CB4BCEC.9060107@yahoo.ca>, Damien Joly wrote: >Personally, instead of "method" I like "behaviour" - but I am an ecologist. > How about calling them verbs? Actually, I don't mind 'message', but when you're creating a class it doesn't seem to make sense to say that you're defining your messages. Message seems to make sense after an instance of a class has been created and you want to... well, send messages to it. But I think that one could just as easily say that they're defining the verbs of a class as that they're defining the methods of a class. Phil