Functions or methods?

Question

If I\'m writing abstract data types in C, are the functions written to perform actions on these data types and exposed in the interface (.h files) called functions,

Answer 1

Is method a C++ specific term?

A "method" is an object-oriented programming term, and refers to a function that is part of the namespace of an object. So you can create methods for objects in languages like C++, Java, Objective-C, etc. In C on the otherhand, you still have stand-alone functions, not methods.

Keep in mind that the "official" C++ term for a class method is a "member function", and is described in section 9.3 of the spec.