Most specific superordinate concept of variable and method?

From:
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
14 Apr 2010 23:37:38 GMT
Message-ID:
<field-and-method-20100415011706@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
  Certain identifiers in Java designate either a
  variable or a method.

  For example, in

void example( final java.awt.geom.Point2D.Double point )
{ return point.x + point.getY(); }

  ?point.x? is a variable, while ?point.getY? is a method.

  So, it seems to me that one can teach that <object>.<name>
  or simply <name> always designates either a variable or a
  method, whenever <name> is written with a lowercase first
  letter (and is not a package name). (Even if you could find
  some exception to this rule, I would like to use this
  as a simplification for beginners classes.)

  Now, it would be niece if there would be a handy
  superordinate concept ??? of variable and method, so that
  could say that such a name always designates a ???.

  I could use ?entity?, but that would be too broad, because
  there are more entities than just variables and methods.

  I could use ?member?, but that reminds much of C++ and also
  would only apply to <object>.<name>, but not to a simple <name>.

  So, does anyone know a most specific superordinate concept
  of variable and method, that is a word that designates both
  variables and methods, but not much more?

  For example, the most specific superordinate concept of
  cat and dog I can find right now is ?Carnivora?. ?Mammalia?
  also is a superordinate concept, but less specific; while
  ?Canidae? is too specific, because it applies to dogs only.

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