OOP: When is it an object?

Question

I\'m trying to understand object orientation. I understand it a little bit of course, but sometimes I\'m not 100% clear. How do you decide what should be turned into an object (

Answer 1

Good old Plato already had an answer (kind of)...

But your question depends a lot on the language you're using, so there's no universal truth here. In some languages a thing should be a class, but it might be an object in others, or both (in those that have meta object protocols), or just a record of values and related functions.