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-//hmmm: below was really wrong and things are still wrong because we're letting the symtab destruct our trees?
-// real thing would be to just toss any pointers referenced in the sym tab here.
-// OR... not at all because sym tab stores objects, and expects objects, and since a pointer isn't an object it will not auto-delete?
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-//hmmm: why was this here? was it ever needed?
-//hmmm: maybe it's the missing link?
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