Ian: The Law has another beneficial effect which we don't mention in the paper: It facilitates proofs by structural induction. This comes out clearly in the object version of the Law, if we assume that we don't have method arguments. Then the Law is identical in spirit to the Compositionality Principle and the major motivation behind that one is structural induction. If you agree, please can find an appropriate place in the paper. I think it is an important property of the Law. -- Karl