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It feels a bit like a rhetorical device to discuss OOP in any context other than the version of Java that's currently in widest usage.

Pure functional languages are capable of this, although they likely aren't modeling it as you envision. Pure record constructors let you do perform arbitrary mutation on the stack …

It really isn't, as OOP languages don't traditionally provide robust mechanisms around immutability. And why would they? The core design of OOP is to wrap mutable state behind meth…