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procedure comparison table

Subject	has definition	is part of	have purpose	hide	have	be	is a subtopic of	have advantage
constructor	A procedure that is called whenever a new object is created	a class	to initialize the instance variables of a newly created object and perform any other needed initialization		one or more preconditions		The Basics of Java
method	A concrete implementation of an operation; a procedure in a class			the details of procedures	a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious	equivalent to the terms "routine", "function" or "procedure" which are used in non object oriented languages	2.4 - Methods, Operations and Polymorphism	when using a certain procedure, a programmer does not need to worry about all the details of how it performs its computations; he or she only needs to know how to call it and what it computes

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