MRAB wrote:
To give an analogy, it is like defining mammals as "hairy animals which
give birth to live young", which is correct for all mammals except for
monotremes, which are mammals which lay eggs.
Or the naked mole-rat. Or cetaceans (whales).
The way I understand it, the main characteristic shared by
all mammals is the presence of mammary glands in females.
To wrest this back on topic, sometimes a definition
can be improved without making it any more complicated.
In the case of methods, perhaps instead of "defined inside
a class body" it could say "bound to a name in a class
namespace". That's what really matters, not how it came to
be there.
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Greg
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