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Methods often seem to be the forgotten part of object-oriented languages. The emphasis seems very much to be on inheritance and polymorphism, not on what methods are and how they are derived. This chapter reviews the position of methods in object-oriented languages and how they are located.

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Craig, I. (2002). Methods. In: The Interpretation of Object-Oriented Programming Languages. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0199-4_5

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