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In general, Python method is just combination of function object and pointer to "self" namespace.

• agumonkey 12y ago
  I'd like to know if it's done differently in other languages. In my view, methods are curried function over self with a '.' syntactic shortcut.
  • collyw 12y ago
    That's pretty much how I view them as well.
    • agumonkey 12y ago
      Great then.
  • kazagistar 12y ago
    Lua does not do the currying bit, but it does a lot less OOP and a lot more "dictionaries with stuff that can do something like prototype OOP if you squint hard enough". Java and whatnot just don't let you really use methods as first class citizens, so it doesn't matter.
    • agumonkey 12y ago
      IIRC under the hood Java will 'evaluate' the methods body as a sophisticated function with 'this' in its environment.