> So what do you think is the best way to improve this patch?
>

I was afraid you'd ask that.  I think I'd:

1) check how many of the calls to lookupvar really are divorced from an
AST::Node & why
2) refactor the stray calls to lookupvar where needed
3) refactor lookupvar to accept a "context"
4) modify lookupvar to detect dynamic scope resolution as it happens, rather
than doing two passes (see above)
5) make a singleton that represented the warnings issued so far so that we
only warn once per (static) instance, not once per compile (which could well
result in thousands of warnings per error)
6) deal with whatever unexpected complications came up and gnash my teeth,
etc.

I'll start on that and report back with contrition if it turns out that I'm
just grossly oversimplifying the issues implicit in 6).

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who have not got it.  ~George Bernard Shaw
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