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Issue: STACK-LET (Version 1)
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It is always permissible for STACK-LET to behave like LET.
Its use is merely advice to an implementation about the use
of a variable which might not otherwise be provable.
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It would also be possible to unify this proposal with
REST-ARGUMENT-EXTENT. The technique would be to allow
(LET ((X (LIST ...)))
(DECLARE (DYNAMIC-EXTENT X))
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to be rewritten by the compiler as:
(SYSTEM::STACK-LET ((X (LIST ...)))
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for example.
The DYNAMIC-EXTENT declaration is a smaller, cleaner addition
than a new STACK-LET special form.
It's less of a burden on implementors and users to ignore a declaration
than to expand one special form into another.
-- John