Re: issue SYNTACTIC-ENVIRONMENT-ACCESS

[cperdue@Sun.COM (Cris Perdue)]

> > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 16:18 EST
> > From: David A. Moon <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
> > 
> > Another approach would be for (DECLARATION declaration-specifier env)
> > to return a list of all decl-specs currently in force with the symbol
> > declaration-specifier in their car, sorted so the innermost declaration
> > is first on the list.  It's then up to the caller to parse this in
> 
> Hmmm.  I think this has promise, provided that we either clarify that
> for declarations that can be "bound", only those declarations that
> apply to lexically visible bindings be returned, or else restrict this
> to declarations that can only be "free".  Also, shouldn't this
> function also ought to be required to know about the DECLARATION
> decl-spec as well as OPTIMIZE?

VARIABLE-INFORMATION, FUNCTION-INFORMATION, plus an accessor of
the sort you are describing would seem quite satisfactory to me.
I realize there are technical details to be worked out.

				-Cris