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

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Manuel Simoni 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'.