Quote Originally Posted by whiteflags View Post
Well, I don't know etymology, but the usage certainly does make sense. Consider the following:

Methods

The way I think of it, we all have methods, or ways of doing things people ask us to do.

I have to admit, I found this browsing wikipedia. Wikipedia is a great way to find the random blogs it is frequently sourced with.
But that's the problem. A method is a _way_ of doing something. But in OOP a "method" still just fulfils a request in the same way any old function would. Any function, whether or not a "method" may go about preforming it's request in a particular way.

I'm just not seeing how datum.proc() is somehow more methodic than proc(datum).