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"Object" is such a generic term that one can call anything an object. However, in the OOP world, an entity is an object if it has been defined or created like an object in the language's syntax. So the answer to your question is: we don't know, show us its declaration.

But the truth is that one can write many different stories on this line. One can tell the OO story in which m is an object, one can tell the FP story in which m is an IOMonad, one can tell the procedural story in which m is a record.

All of these stories are more or less equally good if it's a single line of code. But on a whole program, some of them can be more or less believable at certain points. For instance, when the OOP story tells us that integers are objects and that "+" is a message to which integers answer by given the result of an addition, this part of the story can seem a little far-fetched for some people.

Is there such a thing as the "best story in the world"? Definitely not. There's not even a "my favourite story" for most people, but instead a "my favourite love story" and a "my favourite horror story", and so on. How does one come up with a favourite story? By reading stories.