Re: special declarations

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Sam wrote:
> why isn't active_bit_o flag do its job in make_variable_frame and C_let?
> symbol_env_search appears to respect it!

The code is optimized for lexical bindings.

I'm not looking at this now: contorted examples are low priority for me.

If you want to tackle this long-standing bug, I suggest that you write
an exhaustive test suite FIRST that covers
  - LET, LET* and LAMBDA,
  - the variable being declared special is bound / is not bound / the variable
    is bound without being declared special
  - compiled and interpreted
THEN you can see what is wrong and what is correct and must not be changed.

Bruno