[External] : Re: Question about circular references

[Ron Pressler]

> On 4 Jul 2023, at 20:06, David Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All of that is to say this. This is a problem that I pay a tax for several times a day, every day. So in my eyes, this is a very large thorn in my side.

What is the tax, though? Is it the lack of access to pattern matching? Is it having to manually write accessor methods? Is it just boilerplate or is there something that’s difficult to do correctly without language support?