'method' vs. 'message' vs. 'function' vs. '???'

Question

I recently asked a question about what I called \"method calls\". The answer referred to \"messages\". As a self-taught hobby programmer trying to phrase questions that don\

Answer 1

Message!=Method!=function

in OOP different objects may have different methods bound to the same message.

for example: the message "rotate left n degrees" would be implemented diffrently by diffrent objects such as shape, circle, rectangle and square.

Messages: Objects communicate through messages.

-Objects send and recieve messages.

-the response to a message is executing a method.

-the method to use is determine be the reciever at run-time.

In C++ Methods and Messages are called function members.