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Message Passing Syntax

Two major forms - receiver, then either period or space, then arguments:


aCard.flip(); // C++ or Java or Object Pascal

aCard.includes(a, b); 

aCard flip. " Smalltalk  or Objective-C "

aCard includes: a and: b.