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Date:Mon Dec 2 17:41:38 1995 
Subject:Re: reporting pop bugs (and pvars) 
From:Steve Knight 
Volume-ID:951202.05 

Chris asks:
> How much code would it break (probably lots, and someone should write a
> utility to find out) if ``vars'' declarations local to a procedure
> invented a *new* permanent variable which it then dlocalised? Then the
> intuition ``"vars" are local to a procedure, aren't they?'' would be
> more accurately reflected.

My intuition is that very little code would break.  The proposed 
difference is merely that a local "vars" would *avoid* making a
permanent declaration if one already existed.  This would, in fact,
make broken code start working!

Steve