recursion in demand semantics

Given , , and , what should the demand semantics interpretation of in environment with demand be?

Intuitively, we should interpret in terms of the interpretation of . Naturally, we should have , where . But we have an element of at hand—namely, . So we could postulate

Of course, this does not work because of the circularity in the definition of , but it is suggestive.

Author: Nicholas Coltharp

Created: 2026-05-07 Thu 00:00

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