I just meant that people have very different ideas about what OOP means. You seem to have an unusually broad definition, but others, particularly the guy who co

I just meant that people have very different ideas about what OOP means. You seem to have an unusually broad definition, but others, particularly the guy who coined the phrase in the first place, have more specific definitions. In general, most people agree that OOP involves some form of information hiding, which you seem to disagree on. I also wouldn't say I'm particularly emotionally invested in FP, just that I'm very skeptical of OOP as a paradigm. OOP languages tend to promote hidden, mutable state, but visible, immutable values are far more useful.