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A method is a procedure that is associated with a particular object. The purpose of the method is to guide the behavior of the object, and the tag should be used when this is the case.

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Prefer class members or passing arguments between internal methods?

Suppose within the private portion of a class there is a value which is utilized by multiple private methods. … In an OOP system, if these were all methods of a class (say due to refactoring via extracting methods from a large method), that variable could be passed around them all or it could be a class member. …
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