Hi!

In OOP (at Univ. of Buenos Aires) we learn to call them this way:

- variables --> internal collaborators
- parameters --> external collaborators

My opinion is that it's more OO thinking an object as having collaborators
(and interacting with them sending messages) rather than thinking those
collaborators as variables, a concept that is usually associated with a
value that you can directly manipulate.


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Daniel Altman
Da Vinci - Consultoría de Sistemas