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[QUOTE="Chris Croughton, post: 2409304"]
They aren't the same thing, exactly.  A 'method' is a special type of
function which applies only to an 'object' (and within that method the
object under consideration is normally available implicitly).  In C++
are both ordinary functions and methods:

class FRED
  {
    public:
      void func1(int x)
      {
        xxx = x;
      }
      int xxx;
  };
  
  void func1(FRED *f, int x)
  {
    f.xxx = x;
  }

func1 is a method of class FRED, and so a pointer to the object being
used is passed in implicitly (as *this), func2 is an external function
which takes a pointer to type FRED as an explicit argument.

In particular, they are called in different ways:

int main()
  {
    FRED a, b;
    a.func1(1); // calling the method
    b.func1(2)  // calling the method
    func2(&a);  // calling the function
    func2(&b);  // calling the function
  }

The confusion is that methods look like external functions, apart from
the lack of an explicit pointer to a class...

(I believe that in Java everything is part of an object, so they are all
methods...)

Chris C
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