--- a/compiler.js	Thu Jul 26 18:54:42 2012 -0700
+++ b/compiler.js	Thu Jul 26 23:40:56 2012 -0700
@@ -296,6 +296,12 @@
 
 op.prototype.populateSymbols = function(symbols, isReceiver) {
 	this.left.populateSymbols(symbols);
+	if (this.op == '&&' || this.op == '||') {
+		//&& and || are syntactic sugar for if and ifnot with
+		//the second argument transformed into a lambda to
+		//achieve short-circuit evalutation
+		this.right = new lambda([], [this.right]);
+	}
 	this.right.populateSymbols(symbols);
 };