[Tutor] What are these two string-formatting styles called?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
> You were thinking of the OOP-sense of the word, but you didn't say it. So
> the listener might choose to figure you meant "method" as in "technique".
> After all the word style is used in its English meaning, even though Word
> documents can have styles.
>
> You're quite right that once we're thinking in the OOPS-sense, there's no
> ambiguity.  But I figure a few words more were needed to make sure the
> listener is in sync.  And the easiest way to make sure it's clear we mean a
> class-method is to name the class.  If it were being written, the
> parentheses might be enough.  But parentheses are usually silent when
> speaking.
>

I see, thanks.

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