Not in Alan Kay's conception of OOP.

… That makes the class a container for code, rather than a language construct with a single purpose, which, ironically, violates the single-responsibility principle, one of the core principles in OOP. As James Gosling, Java’s creator put it, “If I could do Java over again, I would leave out classes…
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Richard Kenneth Eng
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Not in Alan Kay's conception of OOP. Remember, his conception was not about abstract data types but of self-contained entities that communicate with one another through messages. He likened OOP to biological cells and virtual computers.
In other words, you're thinking of OOP in the wrong way.
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