Re: Object orientation in es, and a bug?

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>]

| Well, yes, it's probably a bug if you want to think of es as a pure
| lambda calculus, but it's a necessary consequence of using fork and the
| environment on Unix.

Isn't it the case that a more complex serialization could preserve the
sharing?  Something like common lisp's external representation of
circular objects?

| Trying to shoehorn the semantics of the lambda calculus on top of Unix
| may not have been the smartest idea I ever had.

Heretic!