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I think you are, but I don't hold it against you.

In "how method came to be" I think that oogabooga has the best answer for you when he said that method was just a word chosen to differentiate it...

obj.proc() isn't more OOP-like than proc(obj). In python I think you can do it either way. But methods are supposed to be associated with classes.

Maybe a construction company wants to publicly acknowledge breast cancer awareness month. You just don't know when you might need a pink hammer.

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.
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