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  Re: Client and ... ? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-01 09:44 -0400
    Re: Client and ... ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2015-04-04 10:00 -0700
      Re: Client and ... ? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-04 15:08 -0400

#31432 — Re: Client and ... ?

On 04/01/2015 09:24 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Most programmers would agree that in
>
> public final class Main
> { public static void f(){}
>    public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args ){ f(); }}
>
>    the method »main« is the/a /client/ of the method »f«.
>
>    But what is the counterpart?
>
>    »f« is the/a ... of »main«.
>
>
Main.f() is a sibling method member of Main.main(String args)

unless you define some other model such as
"Stefan's Client/Server" model that somehow
relates the members of a class

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#31454

'main()' is the "caller" of 'f()'. In this context "client" is used as a simple English word, not a term of art. In simple English, then, 'f()' is the "provider", or some synonym. I recommend Roget's if you don't like "provider". 

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On 04/04/2015 01:00 PM, Lew wrote:
> 'main()' is the "caller" of 'f()'. In this context "client" is used as a simple English word, not a term of art. In simple English, then, 'f()' is the "provider", or some synonym. I recommend Roget's if you don't like "provider".
>
<https://xkcd.com/547/>

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