What is the difference between a function and a method?

Question

Is there a fundamental difference between the two concepts or are they the same thing with a different name?

Answer 1

You will find that functions and methods are known by a couple of different names in other languages.

Basically, functions are exactly how the SoloLearn courses explain them. The difference when it comes to methods, is that a 'method' is a function, except that it's defined within a class, rather than the main body of the program.

Answer 2

functions are their own sets of gears.
methods are the gears grouped into a class

Answer 3

Method uses the 'dot' notation

// A function
x = function()

// A method
this.x = function()

You will learn more about method and functions in Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

Answer 4

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Answer 5

method = function declared in a class

That's why in Java we refer to all functions as methods because in Java everything is declared and implemented inside a class and everything is an object.

Answer 6

A function with x parameters is equivalent to a method with x-1 parameters.

Like, some languages do
length(string) / function with 1 parameter
and some
string.length() / method with 0 parameters

That is because the owner is always known to the method.