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-A [Function] is a piece of code (SourceCode or MachineCode) which operates as a discrete, independent entity. Structured languages such as [C] and [Pascal] have functions, as do functional languages such as [Lisp] and [Scheme]. ObjectOriented languages have methods
, which are functions associated with some data (i.e. an object).
+A [Function] is a piece of code (SourceCode or MachineCode) which operates as a discrete, independent entity. Structured languages such as [C] and [Pascal] have functions, as do functional languages such as [Lisp] and [Scheme]. ObjectOrientation introduced [Method]s
, which are functions associated with some data (i.e. an object) or a class
.
InLining is a function-level optimisation.
