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Asked: 2026-05-26T01:25:07+00:00

Ive just started year three of my computing degree and have been looking through

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Ive just started year three of my computing degree and have been looking through the course material. My application development module is based around c#. Throughout the material the lecturer refers to what I know to be called ‘methods’ as ‘functions’. I am aware that the term ‘functions’ is used (for example) c++ for as code block but I thought that OOP used ‘method’ to distinguish between the two different types of programming.

So, are the two interchangeable or should the lecturer be using the term ‘methods’?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The C# 3.0 spec says

    1.3

    A class type defines a data structure that contains data members
    (fields) and function members (methods, properties, and others).

    1.6.7

    Members that contain executable code are collectively known as the
    function members of a class. The preceding section describes methods,
    which are the primary kind of function members. This section describes
    the other kinds of function members supported by C#: constructors,
    properties, indexers, events, operators, and destructors.

    And of course "anonymous functions" are called by exacly that term. The phrase "function member or anonymous function" occurs a lot in the spec, there apparently being no accurate shorter way to say "lump of executable code".

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