1) I use a new structure, the sharedvar, which doesn't correspond to any Arc structure. See the other post which had me blinking stupidly at stefano's transformation before I realized how cool it was: http://arclanguage.com/item?id=5784
2) This new structure is untyped (i.e doesn't have type tags, unlike the pair and symbol structures). I intend to make shared variables "seamless" to the upper Arc though, so this should be fine...
3) My original name for this structure was closure-settable, which I shortened to sharedvar instead.
Making the new structure untyped shouldn't create problems, but it could make development difficult: if you have a bug in the transformer or in something related to it, you'll probably get a Seg. fault error instead of a clean "Not a sharedvar" error. The check could then be removed when the code is released.
Hmm. So far the transformation seems correct anyway; and really, the transform is quite simple and appears mathematically correct. Also, because of the way the compile-file driver is structured, it would be possible to remove/replace each individual transform.
Which reminds me, we need to have a proper error continuation too.
