Superficial Syntax thread: Your favorite keywords/class names etc.

[Mario F.]

In C++, and following the creator own terminology, member functions and member variables are the usual terminology used to describe functions and variables of a class. I understand this is not the same on all languages. If I recall correctly Java users use method and properties.

I don't see a problem with any way, albeit I prefer to use the term that is more spread in whatever language I'm working on in order to make myself better understood.

It's been always my thought that Method and Property usage seem to focus more on the object instance since this is where those nouns make more sense, I think. Whereas member function and member variable make more sense when describing a class... particularly in C++ where the terms pointer to method or friend method don't make much sense at all.

Getter and Setter on the other hand are mostly VB, and as far as I know also used as a terminology in C#. They don't seem to be that spread around C++ programmers. I prefer the collective term accessor functions but find myself using getter and setter when not thinking about it. This is so mostly, I think, because I always prefix them with get and set.

[P4R4N01D]

It's been always my thought that Method and Property usage seem to focus more on the object instance since this is where those nouns make more sense, I think. Whereas member function and member variable make more sense when describing a class... particularly in C++ where the terms pointer to method or friend method don't make much sense at all.

I heard in a python lecture that a method is a function that operates on an object and a function takes an object or a series of objects. E.g. (I will make up an example):

:WNDCLASS.hCursor.LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); //method, if this existed
DialogBox(hinst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(DLG_0100), NULL, (DLGPROC) DialogFunc); //Function
string.split(' ') random python example of a method (not C)

There are probably better examples of methods in C++, but I haven't learnt it yet. Helps distinguish the difference though. As for a property, this is an example:

WNDCLASS.lpszClassName