Maybe it has to do with coherence of objects as collections of functions and the fact that they contain state.

I love objects and talking about them as living creatures. :)

They’re sort of like functions that include a long set of parameters.

The one thing I wouldn’t know how to do / name in functional pure functional programming is an incremental parser.

My sense is that would probably have to pass an “object” like parameter like in C that gets updated by the function. What am I missing?