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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Object oriented programming
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:42:22 +0000
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Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> writes:

> On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 11:23:16 AM UTC+1, Jonas Thörnvall wrote:
> <snip>
>> var inputs = midi.inputs.values();
>> 
>> Is midi.input.values(); a function or a method?
>
> There are no methods in JS, only functions, in fact closures.

From section 4.2 of the ECMA 262 language specification:

  "A function that is associated with an object via a property is called
  a method."

(in all the editions I've so far checked from 5.1 to 8).

> ... OTOH a language spec as well as some good enough tutorials are not
> that difficult to find really:
>
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/bm/docs/Web/JavaScript>

This site, too, talks about methods.

-- 
Ben.