[weland]

It's been a long time since I had anything to do with Smalltalk, so I may be shitting you -- unfortunately, I'm also on the run and cannot properly check the following statement, so please take this with a grain of salt -- Smalltalk does not have named functions that aren't methods. In other words, if something takes arguments, returns things and has a name, it's always a method of an object (i.e. it's a message to which an object responds). In other words, while (in abstract terms), a method (1) is different from a function (2), Smalltalk only has (1). You can't define a "function" outside the scope of an object, like in C++. You could define a class that only has a long bunch of static methods, not modeling any kind of logical abstraction, but it's considered bad style.