It drives me nuts, thinking backwards.

in Java or C++ or C, functions and methods are simple. They’re close to what I did in Pascal a quarter century ago:

public int sampleMethod(int y){
//statements go here
return y;
}

and then the call would be

a=sampleMethod(5);

No biggie. If sampleMethod was in a an object I was calling,

a= theObject.samplemethod(5);

But Objective C turned things around. Definitions are simple enough for single parameters:

- (int) SampleMethod:(int) y {
//statements go here
}

but the sending a message looks so different:

a=[theObject samplemethod: 5];

I get confused.  when you have something with multiple parameters in it like

-(void) fillCircleAtPoint:(CGPoint)p withRadius:(CGFloat)radius inContext:(CGContextRef) context{ //stuff here

}

and sending a message to

[self   fillCircleAtPoint:p withRadius:radius*0.5 inContext:context];

it just seems wrong. The withRadius: and inContext: just seem wrong.

They aren’t of course, and it does add to readability.

I get stuck with remembering which object I’m sending a message to, and those funky multiple parameter methods with the extra bits.

I’m silly I’m sure, but it is a paradigm change for me, And I’m guessing someone who will eventually read this.

See you are not the only silly person out there.