recursive types (and operations on them, like pretty-printing, comparison and unification) seem to be working.

big part of the code base still needs to be 'ported' to the updated type constructors.

compare/primitives.js

@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ export const compareUnits = x => y => 0;
 
 // Note: dirty assumption that every symbol has unique description.
 // This will be fixed once we move from symbols to real UUIDs.
-export const compareSymbols = a => b => (a !== b) && compareStrings(a.description)(b.description);
+export const compareSymbols = a => b => Number(a !== b) && compareStrings(a.description)(b.description);

compare/type.js

@@ -1,7 +1,38 @@
 import { getParams, getSymbol } from "../type_constructor.js";
-import { compareSymbols } from "./primitives.js";
+import { compareBools, compareSymbols } from "./primitives.js";
 import { compareLists } from "./structures.js";
 
-export const compareTypes = x => y =>
-  compareSymbols(getSymbol(x))(getSymbol(y))
-    || compareLists(compareTypes)(getParams(x))(getParams(y));
+const __compareTypes = state => typeX => typeY => {
+  // tagX and tagY: just something unique & deterministic that can serve as JS map key
+  const tagX = state.nextTag++;
+  const tagY = state.nextTag++;
+  state.tagsX.add(tagX);
+  state.tagsY.add(tagY);
+  state.comparing.set(tagX, tagY);
+  return compareSymbols(getSymbol(typeX))(getSymbol(typeY))
+      || compareLists
+        (paramOfX => paramOfY => {
+          const pX = paramOfX(tagX);
+          const pY = paramOfY(tagY);
+          return compareBools(state.tagsX.has(pX))(state.tagsY.has(pY))
+             || (() => {
+              if (state.tagsX.has(pX)) {
+                // both sub-types have been visited already in an enclosing call
+                // if they were being compared in the same enclosing call, we assume they are equal!
+                // (we cannot compare them, that would result in endless recursion)
+                return compareSymbols(state.comparing.get(pX))(pY);
+              }
+              // none have been visited -> recursively compare
+              return __compareTypes(state)(pX)(pY);
+             })();
+        })
+        (getParams(typeX))
+        (getParams(typeY));
+};
+
+export const compareTypes = typeX => typeY => __compareTypes({
+  tagsX: new Set(),
+  tagsY: new Set(),
+  comparing: new Map(),
+  nextTag: 0,
+})(typeX)(typeY);