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The word "own" is pretty meaningless. What does "own" even mean? Classes and objects (thought of as "types") are an organizing principle for organizing your functions. If you didn'…

And why is "common discussion" technically relevant? This is not a fault of OOP but of education.

It's Uncle Bob who says objects are bags of functions. And this is not specific to Smalltalk nor dynamic languages. In Java, C#, and C++, objects are still just bags of functions.

Nothing prevents an object's methods from being referentially transparent. It just depends on how you choose to write them.

Starting points matter, but this depends on the programming situation. That's why you use OOP or FP where it is most appropriate or suitable . Neither OOP nor FP is a panacea. Neit…

Inheritance is not a strict requirement of OOP. In OOP, you can always use composition, in which case the question also never arises. Inheritance is there if you need it . It's an …

It has nothing to do with ownership. In FP, a function can only operate on data of a particular type. In OOP, a particular type (or class) gathers all the applicable functions (or …

Nice! Would you mind if I used this?