On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Manuel Simoni <msim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to wrap my head around OO'Haskell's notion of objects as fixpoints.
>
> Is OO'Haskell's use of mfix simply a use of something like a monadic
> Y-combinator to give the object access to its own "identity"?

More or less, yes.  To define 'self' or 'this'.
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