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A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr> writes:

> I do not find in Feval where the `special forms' are treated. Can somebody help me please?

It looks like from line 2272 or so in the current sources of eval.c:

      if (XSUBR (fun)->max_args == UNEVALLED)
        {
          backtrace.evalargs = 0;
          val = (*XSUBR (fun)->function) (args_left);
          goto done;
        }

Does that help?