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Re: terminology

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On 4/19/2012 9:40 PM, Stefan Ram (quoting a bunch of people):
>>>> I do call the simple name between the last dot and the first
>>>> parentheses a /verb/. (So a verb does never contain a dot.)
>>> Simple method name.
>>> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-6.html#jls-6.5.7.1>
>> "Method" or "method invocation" works for me.
>
>    Obviously, these are all different things: A method is not
>    a method name, and a method is not a method invocation.


Right.  It's "method" or "method name" if you mean just the method, and 
"invocation" if you're referring to the act of making the call.  Since 
some different concepts were being tossed around, I gave both answers.


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Re: terminology Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-19 17:17 -0700
  Re: terminology markspace <-@.> - 2012-04-19 20:01 -0700
    Re: terminology Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-04-20 07:09 -0300
    Re: terminology Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-20 08:05 -0700
    Re: terminology markspace <-@.> - 2012-04-20 11:03 -0700
    Re: "static context" Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-21 04:15 -0700

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