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It seems that developers often use these terms interchangeably when referring to a piece of data stored in an instance of a Class.
Is there any technical difference between each term, or is it fine to use them interchangeably?
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According to this web-page, class attributes are variables owned by the class itself. The web page says tagDataMap is a class attribute. But according to Tutorialspoint.com, "class variable is a variable that is shared by all instances of a class.
Field is common for all records whereas attributes are for some particular records and are the main characteristics of a product.
While an attribute is often intuitive, the variable is the operationalized way in which the attribute is represented for further data processing. In data processing data are often represented by a combination of items (objects organized in rows), and multiple variables (organized in columns).
"member" is broader term. It refers everything in that class (instance methods/variables etc.,)
"attribute/variable/field" are same and "member" can be used too.
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