On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:49, briand@aracnet.com wrote:

> let z1 = new a1 ?? ?? ;;
> let z2 = new a2 ?? ?? ;;
> 
> Obviously I need to "ground" the recursion somehow,

Try

let rec 
  z1 = new a1 z1 z2 and
  z2 = new a2 z2 z1 
;;

> I have about 7 more classes in this recursion-fest and a nice orderly
> way to handle it would be VERY helpful.

Try 

class a1 (x:a1 option) (y:a2 option) =

a1 option has value

Some of a1 | None

and so is like a C pointer. 

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