[Haskell-cafe] What does it mean that objects are fixpoints? (OO'Haskell)

[Sean Leather]

> 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"?
>

I don't remember the details exactly, but isn't it to support open recursion
for inherited/overridden methods?

http://etymon.blogspot.com/2006/04/open-recursion-definition.html

Regards,
Sean
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