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 Brummel
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76b21c00eb |
feat(lang): eliminate the Implicit ownership default — totality + the drop-soundness it demasks (#55)
Deletes `ParamMode::Implicit`. `ParamMode` is now `{Own, Borrow}`:
every fn-type slot on every signature carries an explicit `own` or
`borrow`, no defaulted position survives anywhere (model 0008 §2,
spec 0062). The parser rejects a bare fn-type slot; `borrow-return`
and `borrow-over-value` reject at the signature; the corpus is
migrated to minimal-ownership modes (consumed ⇒ own, read-only-heap
⇒ borrow, value ⇒ trivial-own). The documented `Implicit`-ret-mode
leak is fixed: an owned heap return now drops exactly once (live=0,
acceptance criterion 5).
This was the easy half. Removing the default ACTIVATED a family of
drop paths that `Implicit` had silently skipped — the pre-cutover
language was leaking (and in places mis-dropping) here rather than
crashing, because an Implicit scrutinee turned the drop off. Making
the modes explicit (Own) turned those paths on and exposed two
latent-bug clusters, all fixed RED-first as part of this cutover:
Drop-soundness family (four legs):
A. lit-sub-pattern double-free — the desugar re-matched the same
owned scrutinee in the lit fall-through; fixed by grouping
consecutive same-ctor arms into one match (bind fields once),
in ailang-core desugar.
B. Cons-husk leak on non-tail arm bodies — the lit-sub-pattern
desugar rebound the owned scrutinee via `Let $mp = xs`, which
bumped consume_count and suppressed the existing fn-return
partial_drop. Fixed by not rebinding a bare-Var scrutinee
(one husk-freeing mechanism, not two).
C. polymorphic `drop_<T>` rc_dec'd monomorphised value fields —
the per-ADT drop fn was emitted once from the polymorphic
TypeDef, defaulting type-var fields to ptr and rc_dec'ing
inline Ints (segfault). Fixed with per-monomorph drop
functions (new ailang-codegen::dropmono): the drop set is
collected from the lowered MIR, value-type fields are skipped,
heap fields still freed once; monomorphic-concrete ADTs keep
their byte-identical un-suffixed drop symbol.
D. static Str literal passed to an `(own Str)` param — the
literal lowers to a header-less rodata constant; the callee's
now-active rc_dec read its length field as a refcount and
freed a static address (segfault). Fixed with the missing
fourth StrRep::Static→Heap promotion in lower_to_mir's App arm,
gated on Own mode (borrow args stay static, no regression).
over-strict-mode lint over-fired: it suggested `(borrow V)` for
value-typed params (which `borrow-over-value` rejects — own is the
only legal mode there) and fired on `(intrinsic)` bodies (whose
consumption the linearity walk cannot observe). Tightened to skip
both; contract 0008 updated to the narrowed firing scope.
Irreversible step — canonical-form hash reset (model 0008 §6,
acceptance criterion 6). Every signature now carries explicit modes,
so the hashable canonical JSON changed for every module. RATIFY:
the corpus-wide hash-pin reset (hash_pin, prelude_module_hash_pin,
mono_hash_stability, eq_ord_e2e, embed_export_hash_stable, the
ct4/iter*/loop_recur schema-extension pins) and the list ir_snapshot
golden were regenerated once, deliberately, as the intended one-time
consequence of removing the mode elision from the canonical form —
not a regression. Each regenerated hash verified deterministic across
two runs.
Also fixes a pre-existing latent failure surfaced by the verification
gate, unrelated to this cutover: the `every_contract_names_a_resolvable_
ratifying_test` resolver (design_index_pin) could not resolve the
" + " dual-link ratifying-test form (`uniqueness.rs + linearity.rs`)
that the #57 audit-close (
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Brummel
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5bb721178f |
fieldtest: remove-mut-var-assign — 4 examples, all working; milestone CLOSED
Post-audit downstream-LLM-author field test of the post-removal Form-A surface. 4 fresh real-world programs written from DESIGN.md + form_a.md + public examples only (no compiler source): running sum-of-squares accumulator (loop/recur → 385), grade cascade (let-threaded if → 4/2/0), Horner polynomial straight-line build-up (let-shadow chain → 73), multi-state bracket scanner threading (rest,depth,ok) by tail recursion → true/false. 0 bugs, 0 friction, 0 spec_gap, 4 working — every task clean and correct on the first try with only let/if/loop/recur; all parse|render|parse byte-identical; zero mut/var/assign tokens produced (a doc-faithful author did not reach for the removed construct). The closest-to-friction case (multi-state machine restates the full state tuple per tail-call) is correctly classified working, not a spec_gap: that explicit-dataflow cost is the local-reasoning pillar working as designed; mut's implicit cross-iteration persistence is exactly the failure class the removal eliminates. mut-keyword rejection is fail-closed with a diagnostic that enumerates the surviving forms (no tombstone, no-nostalgia, as spec'd). Removal thesis empirically CONFIRMED — mut was redundant with let/if/loop/recur in 100% of the fresh tasks. The remove-mut-var-assign milestone is fully ratified and CLOSED: spec+plan+iter, audit clean (architect [high] form_a.md fixed in .tidy, bench causally exonerated), fieldtest clean. Roadmap P0 flipped [~]→[x]; WhatsNew user-facing entry appended. |