What is a difference between a method and a function?

Question

What is the difference between a method and a function? Is it that a method returns a value and a function doesn\'t?

Answer 1

In one line, a method is a function but a function is not necessarily a method. The difference is that a method is used to describe functions defined in classes that are used with instances of those classes.

package {class Example {
  public function iAmAMethod():void {
     addEventListener("listenerFunctionIsNotAMethod", function(event:Event):void {
        trace("inline function, yay!");
     });
  }

}