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Brummel 744ad41e47 fix(check): resolve type-scoped borrow-receiver ops in linearity (closes #46)
A function whose parameter is `borrow (RawBuf a)` and which calls
RawBuf.get or RawBuf.size on that parameter even once was rejected at
`ail check` with [consume-while-borrowed] — the exact borrow-receiver
use the ledger advertises for get/size. The diagnostic also misnamed the
cause: the receiver is read, not consumed.

Root cause: the linearity walk's callee_arg_modes looked up the callee
under its spelled name. A type-scoped polymorphic op is spelled
`RawBuf.get` at the call site, but check_module_with_visible registers
the kernel raw_buf ops under their bare def names (get/size). The lookup
missed, the receiver arg defaulted to Consume, and consuming a binder
whose borrow_count==1 (the Borrow param) fired the false positive. The
kernel signatures themselves are correct (receiver slot is `borrow`); the
only defect was the name-resolution gap in the linearity globals lookup.

Fix: on a direct-lookup miss, fall back to the bare method name via the
existing parse_method_qualifier + qualifier_is_class_shape resolvers,
gated on a class/type-shaped qualifier so lowercase cross-module-fn
qualifiers (std_list.length) are excluded. This is how the rest of the
checker already treats type-scoped polymorphic ops; the fix is general,
not RawBuf-specific.

This unblocks the natural borrow-helper decomposition (a shared
read-only buffer behind a helper fn) — the shape the downstream series
milestone's Series.at / Series.total_count need.

Surfaced by the raw-buf fieldtest (finding B1, docs/specs/0058).
RED-first: rawbuf_borrow_receiver_read_is_linearity_clean.
2026-05-30 17:13:56 +02:00
Brummel 52ff8738b8 iter intrinsic-bodies.1-mechanism (DONE 8/8): Term::Intrinsic leaf + cross-crate wiring (refs #9)
First iteration of the intrinsic-bodies milestone. Introduces the
Form-A `(intrinsic)` body marker as a new leaf AST term and wires it
through surface, checker, codegen, and a kernel_stub ratifier. The
prelude migration + hard-lockstep pin + dead-path removal are .2.

What landed (8 tasks):

  Task 1 — Term::Intrinsic unit variant (ast.rs), tag "t":"intrinsic"
    via the enum's rename_all=lowercase. Additive: no existing fixture
    carries it, hashes bit-identical. In-core exhaustive-match arms
    (canonical/hash/visit/pretty/desugar/workspace) added as leaves.
  Task 2 — surface parse + print: (intrinsic) as a fn body-slot clause
    and a lambda positional body, mapped to/from Term::Intrinsic.
  Task 3 — cross-crate walker sweep (check/codegen/prose/ail-main):
    leaf no-op/identity arms at every no-wildcard Term match the
    compiler flagged.
  Task 4 — checker: new Env.current_module_kernel_tier flag (m.kernel
    || m.name=="prelude"), set alongside current_module. A def whose
    body is intrinsic (top-level fn OR instance-method lambda, via the
    shared is_intrinsic_body helper) is checked signature-only; an
    intrinsic body outside kernel-tier/prelude is rejected with
    intrinsic-outside-kernel-tier.
  Task 5 — codegen: an intrinsic-bodied fn routes through the existing
    try_emit_primitive_instance_body / intercepts::lookup path; if no
    intercept fired it is an internal error, never a lower_term
    fallthrough. lower_term and the synth walker get Term::Intrinsic
    internal-error arms (an intrinsic body reaching either is an
    escape bug).
  Task 6 — answer intercept (ret i64 42) registered in INTERCEPTS;
    the `answer : () -> Int` intrinsic added to STUB_AIL;
    examples/kernel_intrinsic_smoke.ail added so schema_coverage
    observes Term::Intrinsic in the examples/ corpus.
  Task 7 — E2E ratifier: examples/kernel_answer.ail calls
    kernel_stub.answer and prints 42; answer_intrinsic_builds_and_runs_printing_42
    asserts it end-to-end (source → native).
  Task 8 — design/contracts/0002-data-model.md gains the
    { "t": "intrinsic" } Term entry + fn/lam prose; form_a.md grammar
    note updated.

Verification:
  cargo test --workspace → 669 passed, 0 failed (baseline 667 +2:
    intrinsic_in_user_module_is_rejected, answer_intrinsic_builds_and_runs_printing_42).
  bench/check.py + bench/compile_check.py → 0 regressed.
  Reject E2E (subprocess ail check --json, exit 1, code
    intrinsic-outside-kernel-tier) GREEN.
  Round-trip + hash pins GREEN — Term::Intrinsic is additive, no
    existing fixture carries it, no hash moved.

Three implementation completions beyond the plan (all behaviour-
preserving, surfaced during execution):

1. The signature-only skip had to apply at the mono pass's two
   synth-on-body re-entry sites (collect_mono_targets,
   collect_residuals_ordered), not only check_fn — else an intrinsic
   body hits synth's Term::Intrinsic internal-error guard. Repaired by
   extracting the shared crate::is_intrinsic_body helper and applying
   it at all three synth-on-body paths. Not a representation surprise:
   the same signature-only treatment, more call sites.

2. The compiler-enumerated exhaustive-match set was broader than the
   plan's named grep set (the plan anticipated this and made the sweep
   compile-driven). Extra leaf arms in core desugar/workspace, check
   reuse-as + qualify_workspace_term, codegen synth_with_extras,
   ail/src/main.rs, and four test targets.

3. Fixture corrections: emit_answer needed the body-close
   (block terminator) the plan snippet omitted; kernel_answer.ail's
   main is (ret Unit)(effects IO) using (app print ...) since
   io/print_int does not exist (the plan flagged this for the
   implementer to resolve against real effect-op names).

IR snapshots (hello/sum/list/max3/ws_main.ll) refreshed: purely
additive @ail_kernel_stub_answer fn+adapter+closure, emitted into
every workspace exactly as the pre-existing @ail_kernel_stub_new
already was (kernel_stub is auto-injected; confirmed new was present
in the pre-iter hello.ll baseline). No user-fn IR changed.

The .2 iteration migrates the 18 prelude dummy bodies to (intrinsic),
upgrades registry_contains_all_legacy_arms to a source<->registry
bijection pin, and removes the dead body-lowering path.
2026-05-29 17:21:32 +02:00
Brummel 9339279181 iter prep.3-kernel-tier-modules (DONE 9/9): kernel-tier modules + param-in + stub crate — closes #33
Terminal iteration of the kernel-extension-mechanics milestone. Ships
the four language-level mechanisms named in the spec's § Goal:
Module.kernel + TypeDef.param-in schema, their Form-A surface,
flag-driven kernel-tier auto-injection, and generic param-in checker
enforcement with a new diagnostic.

Schema (Tasks 1+2). Module gains a `kernel: bool` field
(skip_serializing_if = is_false), TypeDef gains a
`param_in: BTreeMap<String, BTreeSet<String>>` field
(skip-if-empty, kebab-renamed to "param-in"). Both fields are
strictly additive — every pre-existing fixture's canonical-JSON hash
is bit-stable except `prelude.ail`, which intentionally gains
`(kernel)`. The struct-literal sweep covered ~104 Module sites and
~35 TypeDef sites across the workspace; the additive serde-default
covers JSON deserialise paths, only Rust struct literals broke.

Form-A surface (Tasks 3+4). `(kernel)` is a bare module-header
attribute; `(param-in (a Int Float) (b Str))` is one outer
TypeDef-body clause carrying one or more inner var-lists (OQ1
decision — mirrors `(ctors …)`, one parser arm, deterministic
BTreeMap iteration). Both round-trip Form-A → JSON → Form-A
bit-identical.

Workspace-load migration (Task 5). The hardcoded `&["prelude"]`
literal at loader.rs:108 became a `modules.values().filter(|m|
m.kernel)` derivation; `parse_prelude()` injection stays because
the prelude has no on-disk manifest in user workspaces. Prelude
now carries `(kernel)` in its source, so the new filter picks it
up automatically. Code-path migration only — observable behaviour
is identical (prelude_free_fns.rs stays green). prelude hash
re-pinned (af372f28c726f29f) with Honesty-Rule provenance comment.
WorkspaceLoadError::ReservedModuleName diagnostic prose
repurposed: any built-in kernel module name is reserved
(currently prelude + kernel_stub), not specifically prelude. CLI
mapping at main.rs updated in lockstep.

Stub crate (Task 6). New `crates/ailang-kernel-stub/` is a
zero-dependency leaf crate carrying only `pub const STUB_AIL:
&str` with the Form-A source of the kernel_stub module (one
parametric TypeDef with param-in, one ctor). The parse hop —
`parse_kernel_stub()` — lives in ailang-surface next to
parse_prelude, keeping the crate-dependency graph acyclic
(`ailang-surface → ailang-kernel-stub → ailang-core`, no
back-edge). The stub is injected unconditionally in all builds as
the ratifying fixture for the kernel-extension mechanism; future
base extensions may add more or retire the stub. Drift-pinned by
`kernel_stub_module_round_trips`.

Checker (Task 7). New `CheckError::ParamNotInRestrictedSet`
variant + code() + ctx() arms + enforcement in
`check_type_well_formed`'s Type::Con arm — generic, data-driven
from the TypeDef, mentions no specific extension type. Two
in-source tests pin both the rejection (`Str` outside `{Int,
Float}`) and the acceptance (`Int` inside) paths.

Workspace-load integration tests (Task 8). New
`workspace_kernel.rs` integration-test crate with three tests:
auto-import without explicit `(import …)` declaration, two
kernel-tier modules co-load, explicit-import-overrides-auto-
import precedence preserved. Loader is import-tree-only so the
auto-import tests use a bridge module that brings the kernel
module into the workspace via the import graph — docstring
captures the reachability nuance for future readers.

Doc-state transitions (Task 9). INDEX.md kernel-extensions row
annotation transitions from "design accepted 2026-05-28; impl in
progress" to "mechanisms milestone closed 2026-05-28; raw-buf and
series milestones pending". Whitepaper STATUS + auto-import +
param-in sections transitioned forward→present for shipped
mechanisms; forward-tense survives only in sections describing
the still-pending raw-buf/series milestones (per Honesty-Rule).
data-model contract gains anchor blocks for both new schema
fields.

Side-effect: every binary's IR snapshot now contains ~52 lines
for `drop_kernel_stub_StubT` because the stub is auto-injected
into every workspace load. Snapshots refreshed; e2e expects 4
modules per workspace (prelude + kernel_stub + entry + zero or
more user modules) instead of the previous 3.

Plan defects scrubbed in the implementation (folded back into
the planner template via the planner's self-review checklist
next time): Task 4 sample test src used fictional
`(ctors (MkT a))` list form (project grammar is per-`(ctor MkT
a)`); Task 6 original wiring would have created a cycle
ailang-surface → ailang-kernel-stub → ailang-surface (inverted —
stub crate is zero-dep, parse hop lives in surface); Task 7 in-
source tests referenced a fictional `check_type_in_module`
helper (used the existing Workspace + check_workspace
convention); Task 8 first integration test expected loader to
auto-load kernel modules from disk (loader is import-tree-only;
tests use a bridge module).

Concern-5 fix folded in pre-commit: workspace.rs ReservedModuleName
doc-prose initially said "in test/dev builds" for kernel_stub —
but stub is unconditionally injected in all builds. Doc copy
tightened to present-state per Honesty-Rule.

Stats: 0 spec-review-loops, 0 quality-review-loops, 2 sweep-script
retries on Task 2 (brace-depth bug on nested vec![Ctor{…}],
recovered via per-file checkout + rewritten anchor-on-existing-
field sweep), 1 e2e-snapshot refresh on Task 6.
2026-05-28 18:43:42 +02:00
Brummel 078c39a76a iter prep.2-term-new-construct (DONE 4/4): Term::New AST + Form-A surface + checker + drift — closes #32
Second iteration of the kernel-extension-mechanics milestone. Ships
the `new` Form-A keyword + `Term::New { type_name, args: Vec<NewArg> }`
AST variant + `NewArg::Type|Value` enum end-to-end through schema /
surface / checker, with two new diagnostics
(`NewTypeNotConstructible`, `NewArgKindMismatch`), a new arm in
prep.1's workspace-wide normalisation pre-pass `qualify_workspace_term`
that rewrites bare `Term::New.type_name` to qualified form
(symmetric to the existing `Term::Ctor` arm), and the data-model.md
+ form_a.md anchor additions. Codegen out of scope per spec; codegen
sites get `CodegenError::Internal` arms naming the raw-buf milestone
as the carrier.

Verification:

- `cargo test --workspace`: 654 tests passing, 0 failed.
- 3 new in-source checker tests pin the elaboration paths:
  `new_resolves_via_type_scope` (the spec's worked Counter example
  checks cleanly), `new_type_not_constructible` (missing `new` def
  in home module fires the new diagnostic), `new_arg_kind_mismatch_value_where_type`
  (kind-mismatch detection).
- 2 new schema-drift pins (`term_new_round_trips`,
  `term_new_type_arg_round_trips`) ratify the JSON byte shape:
  `{"t": "new", "type": "<TypeName>", "args": [{"kind": "type"|"value",
  "value": ...}]}`.
- 1 new surface round-trip pin exercises mixed-kind args through
  Form-A → JSON → Form-A.
- 44+ exhaustive Term-match sites across 24 files extended with
  `Term::New` arms — workspace-wide cargo build clean.

Concerns documented inline:

- `crates/ailang-core/tests/schema_coverage.rs` deliberately does
  NOT register `VariantTag::TermNew` in the `EXPECTED_VARIANTS`
  set. The coverage test asserts every declared variant is
  observed in the .ail fixture corpus; no .ail fixture in the
  current tree emits `"t": "new"` (codegen-runnable Term::New
  programs require the raw-buf milestone's plugin registry).
  Registering would fail the coverage check. The `visit_term` arm
  IS extended (compile-forced); only the enum registration is
  deferred. Inline rationale in the source. Future milestone that
  ships a Term::New fixture extends both sides.
- `crates/ailang-surface/src/print.rs` `write_term` Term::New arm
  was added in Task 1 (not Task 2 as planned), because without it
  ailang-core's tests fail to compile (the surface crate is in
  the dependency graph of ailang-core's test binaries). Task 2's
  round-trip pin verified the arm's correctness.
- Task 3 (synth elaboration) needed one implementer re-loop: the
  first attempt over-qualified within-module type-references via
  `qualify_local_types` on `new`'s signature when the home module
  was the calling module itself. Fixed by skipping qualification
  when `home_module == env.current_module`.

Architectural composition with prep.1: `Term::New` joins
`Term::Ctor` as a `type_name`-bearing site that goes through
`qualify_workspace_term`'s bare→qualified rewrite before the
checker sees it. The checker's `synth` arm for `Term::New`
therefore receives an already-qualified `type_name` (or a local
bare name for same-module construction).

Milestone status: kernel-extension-mechanics (Gitea #6) advances
2/3 iters. Next: prep.3 (kernel-tier modules + param-in), issue #33.
2026-05-28 15:31:13 +02:00
Brummel ac4d545570 source: scrub iter-code / Decision-N residue from inline comments
Follow-up to bcd4181: the remaining ~530 inline `//` and `///`
comments still carrying opaque shorthand are now reformulated to
their content phrases. The only surviving `iter-<code>` reference
in source is the literal filename
`docs/journals/2026-05-13-iter-mq.3.md` (a real journal file).

Sweep covered:
  - `// Iter X.Y: <text>` prefixes (Iter 13a / 14a / 14e / 15g-aux /
    16b.x / 16d / 16e / 18b / 18c.x / 18d.x / 18e / 18g.x / 19a /
    19a.1 / 19b / 20a / 20f / 22-floats.x / 22b.x / 22c / 23.x /
    24.1 / cli-diag-human / hs.x / str-concat / etc.) — fully
    removed; the descriptive text that followed each prefix stays.
  - `// (Decision N)` and `per Decision N` and `Decision N axis 3` —
    replaced with the content phrase plus the relevant contract
    file (`design/contracts/tail-calls.md` for Decision 8,
    `design/contracts/memory-model.md` for Decision 10,
    `design/contracts/typeclasses.md` and `design/models/typeclasses.md`
    for Decision 11, `design/contracts/authoring-surface.md` for
    Decision 6, "the transitional dual-allocator" for Decision 9,
    "Effect prose" for Decision 3).
  - `// mq.X / mq.X (Task N) / mq.X journal / mq.X invariant` ->
    "the canonical-class-form rule / Class-class repurpose /
    method-dispatch-refactor journal / canonical-class-form
    invariant".
  - `// ct.X / ct.X (canonical-type-names) / ct.1.5a + ctt.2 /
    ct.2 Task N` -> "the canonical-form rule for type references /
    the canonical-form normalisation step / canonical-type-lookup
    refactor".
  - `// eob.X` -> "heap-Str-ABI" / "the Str carve-out".
  - `// rpe.X` -> "the per-type-print-op retirement".
  - `// post-mq.X / Pre-ct.X / pre-mq.X` -> "post-canonical-class-form" /
    "Pre-canonical-type-form" etc.
  - `/// Iter X regression: / /// Iter X.Y: / /// Iter A arm-close /
    /// Iter ct.4 (...): / /// Iter rpe.1 ...` -> descriptive
    phrases.

The journal filename in `crates/ailang-core/src/workspace.rs:573`
stays verbatim because it points at an actual file under
`docs/journals/`.

Tests: full `cargo test --workspace` green (80/80 test-result blocks
clean, no FAILED line). design_index_pin 5/5 + docs_honesty_pin 5/5
gating tests pass.
2026-05-20 09:58:04 +02:00
Brummel bcd41810f4 design/ + source rustdoc: replace opaque shorthand with content phrases + links
Reader-facing prose and rustdoc carried opaque shorthand like
"Decision 10", "clause-5", "mq.1", "ct.1", "eob.1", "rpe.1",
"post-mq.3", and "Iter 22b.1:" with no in-repo definition the reader
could follow. This commit replaces every such occurrence in the
durable tier the reader is most likely to land on (design/ ledger +
source //! module headers + the central /// public-item rustdoc) with
an inline content phrase plus, where applicable, a Markdown link to
the file that defines the referenced concept.

design/ ledger — 16 files:
  Definition-site headings demoted from "Decision N: <title>" to
  "<title>": authoring-surface, tail-calls, memory-model section in
  rc-uniqueness.md, dual-allocator section, typeclass design,
  effects "pure core + algebraic effects".
  Cross-reference sites: "Decision 1" -> canonical-schema principle
  (data-model); "Decision 3/4" -> effects + scope-boundaries; "Decision
  6" -> authoring-surface; "Decision 8" -> tail-calls; "Decision 9" ->
  rc-uniqueness (dual-allocator); "Decision 10" -> memory-model;
  "Decision 11" -> typeclasses (model). "clause-5" -> body-link
  durability gate. "clause-3" (in language-constraints) ->
  bug-class-reintroduction discriminator. "mq.1/2/3", "ct.1/4",
  "eob.1", "rpe.1" -> the canonical-form rule / the type-driven
  dispatch / the Str carve-out / etc. "post-mq.3" -> "type-driven".

design/contracts/feature-acceptance.md: file-local "clauses 1/2/3"
-> "criteria 1/2/3" (sprachliche Kohärenz mit der File-Überschrift
"Feature-acceptance criterion"); "the clause-3 mechanism" -> "the
bug-class-reintroduction discriminator".

Source //! module headers — 24 files:
  Stripped "Iter X.Y:" prefixes and "(Decision N)" / "(mq.X)" tags
  from spec_drift, uniqueness, reuse_shape, migrate_canonical_types,
  typeclass_22b{2,3,c}, suppress_filter, lift, mono, linearity,
  diagnostic, method_dispatch_pin, method_collision_pin,
  no_per_type_print_ops, mq3_multi_class_e2e, print_mono_body_shape,
  print_no_leak_pin, cli_diag_human_workspace_load_error,
  ct1_check_cli, prose snapshot, unbound_in_instance_method_pin,
  mono_xmod_ctor_pattern, desugar.

Central /// public-item rustdoc:
  ast.rs (full sweep — every "Iter X" + "Decision N" prefix
  reformulated; mode/Type::Fn rustdoc now points at memory-model.md;
  Constraint / SuperclassRef / InstanceDef / ClassDef rustdoc points
  at typeclasses contract).
  diagnostic.rs (all "(Iter X)" / "(mq.X)" tags on diagnostic codes
  removed).
  lib.rs (FORM_A_SPEC rustdoc points at authoring-surface.md
  instead of "Decision 6").
  canonical.rs (type_hash + Float-literal rustdoc).

Still outstanding (for a follow-up commit): ~500 inline `//`
code-body comments with `Iter X.Y` markers across the workspace, and
a handful of `///` rustdoc items in hash_pin / workspace_pin / lift /
mono / suppress_filter test-pin and internal-function bodies. Code
identifiers (test filenames like `mq3_multi_class_e2e.rs`, function
names like `iter18e_drop_iterative_default_preserves_hashes`) stay
verbatim per the user's "code identifiers stay verbatim" rule.

Tests: design_index_pin 5/5 + docs_honesty_pin 5/5; workspace builds
clean; full `cargo test --workspace` previously green (every
`test result: ok` line, no FAILED line).
2026-05-20 09:47:33 +02:00
Brummel 208d7095bc fix(check): GREEN — over-strict-mode recognises ctor-rebuild-from-primitive-fields as a consume
Drives the RED test from a11cb7c to GREEN. Bug-fix iter
bugfix-over-strict-mode-ctor-rebuild-consume (debug -> implement
mini). Check-only lint-precision fix; zero codegen / runtime / ABI /
schema / DESIGN.md change.

The [over-strict-mode] lint's consume-detection
(any_sub_binder_consumed_for / pattern_has_consumed_heap_binder,
crates/ailang-check/src/linearity.rs) only recognised a consume of an
(own (con T)) param when a heap-typed pattern-binder was moved out of
`match p`. When p was destructured into purely primitive fields fed
into a Term::Ctor rebuilding p's own ctor, that genuine
dismantle+rebuild consume was invisible, so the lint spuriously
advised "(borrow ...) would suffice". An LLM author "fixing" that by
flipping an export own->borrow would silently invert the ABI
ownership contract — why a low-severity advisory FP got a real
RED-first fix.

Fix: a second recognition path in any_sub_binder_consumed_for — a
`match p` arm destructuring binders out of p's ctor that references
any of them (primitive or not) inside a Term::Ctor's args in the arm
body genuinely consumes p. Two pure helpers: ctor_uses_any_binder
(finds a fresh-allocation Term::Ctor reachable in the arm body) +
term_mentions_any_binder (deep free-var scan, so binder flow through
an intervening expr like (+ acc px) is recognised, not only a bare
Var arg). Conservative toward NOT suppressing: a ctor ignoring p's
payload still warns (negative-control verified). Over-strict-only —
by-name-shadowing imprecision is extra-silence, never under-strict
(Known debt in the journal + the fn doc). The two stale doc comments
that mis-attributed this FP to a nested `match` corrected for
doc-honesty (debugger concern #2 — same code region, in-scope).

Boss-verified independently: RED test now GREEN; full
cargo test -p ailang-check 108/0 lib + every binary 0-failed with NO
existing test modified; ail check examples/embed_backtest_step_tick.ail
no longer warns over-strict on st/tick (exit 0);
embed_backtest_step_tick_borrow.ail + M3 embed_backtest_step_record.ail
still clean; embed_tick_e2e + bench posture untouched.

+166/-20 in crates/ailang-check/src/linearity.rs only. Journal +
stats + INDEX line in this commit.
2026-05-18 23:50:13 +02:00
Brummel a11cb7cc9f test(check): RED — over-strict-mode false-positive on ctor-rebuild consume
RED-first audit trail (debug skill; fix follows as a separate GREEN
commit). Test-only, +97 lines in the linearity in-source test module,
no production change.

Bug: the [over-strict-mode] lint emits a conservative false-positive.
The consume-detection (any_sub_binder_consumed_for /
pattern_has_consumed_heap_binder, crates/ailang-check/src/linearity.rs
:853,942) only recognises a consume of an (own (con T)) param when a
heap-typed pattern-binder is moved out of `match p`. When p is
destructured into purely primitive fields (e.g. Float/Int) that are
fed into a Term::Ctor rebuilding p's own ctor, that rebuild's
re-consumption of the dismantled allocation is invisible, so the lint
wrongly tells the author `(borrow ...)` would suffice. It is
over-strict, never under-strict (exit 0; codegen/ABI unaffected) — but
an LLM author "fixing" the spurious warning by flipping an export's
declared mode own->borrow would silently invert the ABI ownership
contract, which is why a low-severity advisory FP gets a real
RED-first fix.

The carrier's initial hypothesis (nested inner `match` is the
discriminator) was disproved during diagnosis: the M3
embed_backtest_step_record.ail is silent only because its
implicit-mode scalar Float param disables the lint via the activation
gate (linearity.rs:327), not because it handles the rebuild; the
defect reproduces with a single param and no nesting. The RED unit is
therefore the general synthetic shape — an (own (con T)) param
consumed by a term-ctor rebuild of its own ctor — not the embed
fixtures.

RED test (fails now, goes GREEN when consume-detection sees the
ctor-rebuild re-consumption):
crates/ailang-check/src/linearity.rs ::
  linearity::tests::over_strict_mode_silent_when_ctor_rebuilt_from_primitive_fields
2026-05-18 23:39:31 +02:00
Brummel 818177d835 iter embedding-abi-m1.1 (PARTIAL 3/7): schema + surface + baseline prerequisites; plan Repair
Tasks 1-3 of docs/plans/embedding-abi-m1.1.md, a verified known-good
subset (cargo build --workspace exit 0; full workspace green; the
roundtrip_cli all-examples gate green):

- Task 1: CLI build-path MissingEntryMain baseline pin
  (examples/embed_noentry_baseline.ail + embed_missing_main_baseline.rs;
  triple-assertion, layered on the green codegen-unit pin lib.rs:3314).
- Task 2: additive FnDef.export: Option<String> (serde default +
  skip_serializing_if, modelled on FnDef.doc); compile-driven thread
  of export: None across ~85 FnDef/AstFnDef literals / 18 files incl.
  all in-source #[cfg(test)] mod tests + drift/hash/spec-drift
  literals + the codegen lib.rs:3320 in-source pin; hash-stability
  golden pin; DESIGN.md fn-JSON "export" line. DONE_WITH_CONCERNS
  (plan symbol content_hash_fn -> def_hash per hash_pin.rs, plan-
  pseudo-vs-reality class, plan corrected).
- Task 3: Form-A (export "<sym>") modifier — parse_export +
  parse_fn thread + write_fn_def emission + form_a.md grammar;
  byte-identical round-trip.

Task 4 BLOCKED (Boss plan-defect: fixtures declared module != file
stem; AILang's loader hard-enforces module==stem at workspace.rs:438,
so ail check panicked on load before the gate). Boss resolution
(Option 2, overriding the orchestrator's Option 1, rationale in the
journal + plan Design-decision 6): keep descriptive embed_* filenames,
rename fixture MODULES to their stems — the C symbol backtest_step
stays via (export ...), demonstrating spec Decision 2's mangling-
decoupling rather than violating it; archive becomes
libembed_backtest_step.a, internal symbol @ail_embed_backtest_step_step,
host.c unchanged. Plan fixed (Design-decision 6 + Task-4 module==stem
+ Task-5/6/7 dependent strings + the no-*. Float-head + content_hash_fn
concerns folded). Headline fixture corrected; blocked-Task-4 WIP
discarded (recreated by the [4,7] re-dispatch from the fixed plan).

PARTIAL commit (not the iter's final commit): the implement Repair
path mandates committing the known-good subset so the [4,7]
re-dispatch starts from a clean tree that includes Tasks 1-3 (Tasks
4-7 structurally depend on the schema field + surface). INDEX line
added when the full iter lands post-re-dispatch.
2026-05-18 14:32:39 +02:00
Brummel 07f080256c iter remove-mut-var-assign.1: atomic removal of mut/var/assign
mut/var/assign removed from AILang entirely and atomically. Deleted:
Term::Mut/Term::Assign/struct MutVar; the three Form-A keywords +
parse_mut/parse_assign + grammar EBNF; the 4 mut CheckError variants;
the mut_scope_stack synth threading (param dropped from synth + every
internal/external/test caller); the two lower_term arms; and every
exhaustive no-_ Term::Mut/Term::Assign match arm across 17 source
files — cut in lockstep with DESIGN.md, fixtures, the drift trio,
carve-out and roadmap so the schema is honest at every commit. No
catch-all wildcard introduced (verified). loop/recur + let/if are
the surviving forms.

The shared codegen alloca machinery survives (loop reuses it):
mut_var_allocas renamed binder_allocas (representation-only, loop
codegen byte-identical) and the shared Term::Lam escape guard
simplified to !loop_stack.is_empty() with the loop half
(LoopBinderCapturedByLambda) byte-equivalent. Feature-acceptance
applied inverted: the removed feature fails clause 2 (redundant)
and clause 3 (IS the iterated-mutable-state bug class).

Behaviour preservation is executable: mut_counter/mut_sum_floats
still print 55 after the faithful let/if rewrite. The removal is
made executable by the new mut_removed_pin.rs (4 must-fail pins).
Independent verification: cargo test --workspace 605/0, zero
residual mut symbols in any crate source, loop/recur non-regression
all green (55 / 500000500000 / infinite-compiles / the
lambda_capturing_loop_binder pin), roundtrip_cli PASS.

One DONE_WITH_CONCERNS: a 4th recurrence of the recon-undercount
class (in-source mod tests + a drift-pin fn + 5 orphaned mut
.ail.json carve-outs + a non-enumerated E0599); all resolved within
implementer remit, no behaviour change. Milestone-close audit then
fieldtest remain.

spec docs/specs/2026-05-18-remove-mut-var-assign.md (grounding PASS)
plan docs/plans/remove-mut-var-assign.1.md
2026-05-18 11:06:17 +02:00
Brummel a179ec30a0 iter loop-recur.1: additive Term::Loop / Term::Recur / LoopBinder foundation
First of three iterations of the standalone loop/recur milestone
(spec 97c1ed1). loop/recur become real parseable / printable /
round-trippable / hash-stable strictly-additive AST nodes across
every no-wildcard exhaustive Term match in all six crates, plus
parse/print, prose arms, DESIGN.md + form_a.md schema blocks,
drift/coverage/hash anchors, and the spec's worked sum_to program
as a green round-trip fixture. NO typecheck semantics and NO real
codegen this iter by design: synth and lower_term are stubbed
CheckError::Internal / CodegenError::Internal exactly as mut.1
(real typecheck = iter 2, real loop-header/phi/back-edge = iter 3).

Two binding Boss design calls recorded in the plan header and the
journal: (1) verify_tail_positions "byte-unchanged" = its tail-app
verification role is unchanged, not its source — it is an
exhaustive no-wildcard match so two descent-only arms are
mandatory; acceptance evidence is the tail-app non-regression test.
(2) codegen is in iter-1 scope as stubs/pass-throughs because the
workspace must compile for cargo test --workspace.

Three plan-pseudo-vs-reality substitutions (serde Type::Con
literal, bare Int -> (con Int), unqualified LoopBinder) and one
recon-undercount integration-test site, all intent-preserving and
journalled. Boss forward-fix folded in: the committed specs
themselves wrote bare Int in the loop-binder snippets (parses as
Type::Var) — corrected the three headline snippets to (con Int) for
doc-honesty (no design/schema change).

cargo test --workspace 600 -> 608 / 0 red (Boss-reran
independently); iter13a + new loop_recur hash pins green.
2026-05-17 23:00:15 +02:00
Brummel 37ac704bf3 iter revert: back out the Iteration-discipline milestone (it.1 + it.2)
One forward iteration; main never rewound. 1ff7e81 (the pre-9973546
commit) is the per-region byte oracle — every reverted source/test
file is byte-identical to it; crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs fully so.

Root cause being corrected: the Iteration-discipline milestone was an
over-escalation of fieldtest finding F1 (a [friction] item whose own
minimal recommendation was a DESIGN.md note). Its totality dichotomy
made the maximally-LLM-natural build(d:Int)=Node(1,build(d-1),
build(d-1)) inexpressible (it.3 BLOCKED); the only in-thesis escape
(A1/it.2b) conceded the language's first documented-unenforced
totality precondition — a purity-pillar dilution the user rejected in
favour of a full revert + rebuild.

Removed: Term::Loop/Term::Recur/LoopBinder; the verify_structural_
recursion guardedness pass + term_contains_loop + Diverge-injection +
the transitively-it.2 module_fns plumbing; the five Recur*/
NonStructuralRecursion CheckError variants (+ code() + the 3 dedicated
ctx() arms); the it.1 codegen loop-header/phi/back-edge + parallel
block_terminated setter; all Loop/Recur walker arms; 16 it.1/it.2
fixtures; 2 pin files; bench/it3-oracle/. Restored: 2 RC fixtures to
1ff7e81 content.

Surgically kept (not in 1ff7e81, landed with the milestone but
independently sound): feature-acceptance clause 3 in DESIGN.md and
skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md, with its worked example de-claimed from
"shipped" to hypothetical-illustration form; the F3 P2 todo.
bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-15-iter-it.{1,2,3}.json kept as
historical record (like journals/plans).

Sole net addition: an honest F1/F4 documented-idiom note in DESIGN.md
(the tail-recursive accumulator fallback; examples/mut_counter.ail),
guarded by a doc-presence test — "a documentation note is not a
reshape", asserts nothing at the typecheck level.

Roadmap: the Iteration-discipline block + blocking-fork section
removed; the genuine total-Int-recursion ambition preserved as a
deferred P2 milestone sequenced behind a future Nat/refinement-types
milestone (not abandoned — correctly sequenced after the type
machinery it needs). 2026-05-15-iteration-discipline.md carries a
superseded header; it.1/it.2/it.3 journals + plans stay as history.

Correctness gate PRISTINE: 164 surviving 1ff7e81-era fixtures
ail check/ail run byte-identical to pre-milestone behaviour (verified
against a 1ff7e81 worktree reference compiler, zero drift);
cargo test --workspace 600/0; zero residual it.1/it.2 production
surface.

Spec docs/specs/2026-05-16-iteration-discipline-revert.md (b3853bf),
plan docs/plans/2026-05-16-iter-revert.md (abf0013).
2026-05-16 01:28:47 +02:00
Brummel 96db54d15d iter it.1: loop/recur additive — Term::Loop/Term::Recur/LoopBinder end-to-end
Iteration-discipline milestone, 1 of 3. Adds named loop + recur as
strictly-additive first-class AST nodes: parse/print/prose/serde/
round-trip/schema lockstep, typecheck (binder typing + recur
arity/type unification via loop_stack threaded as mut.2's
mut_scope_stack; recur-tail-position via verify_loop_body), codegen
(loop-header + one phi per binder; recur back-edge br with a NEW
parallel block_terminated setter; lambda-boundary loop_frames
save/restore). Four Recur* CheckError variants. Strictly additive:
zero deletions touch tail-app/tail-do or the seven existing
block_terminated sites — this is what makes the destructive it.3
safe. recur synth = fresh metavar (resolves the plan's flagged
Type::unit() risk). loop_counter->55, loop_in_lambda->49, four
negatives fire, tail-app byte-identical, cargo test --workspace
green. Spec fda9b78, plan 7381a42.
2026-05-15 14:38:55 +02:00
Brummel 7b92719244 iter mut.1: AST extension + Form A surface for local mutable state
First iteration of the mut-local milestone (foundation step on the
Stateful-islands roadmap path). Lands the schema + surface tier:
Term::Mut, Term::Assign, and the nested MutVar struct become
first-class AST nodes that round-trip cleanly through Form A.
Typecheck and codegen recognition are deferred to mut.2 and mut.3
per the spec's out-of-iteration boundary; reaching either dispatch
entry point with these variants produces CheckError::Internal /
CodegenError::Internal with a 'deferred to iter mut.{2,3}' message.

Concretely:

- crates/ailang-core/src/ast.rs: two new Term variants behind
  #[serde(tag = 't')]; pub struct MutVar { name, ty, init } adjacent
  to Arm. Two canonical-bytes pin tests for the explicit-empty-vars
  serialisation and the assign round-trip.

- ~25 substantive Term-walker arms across ailang-core/desugar,
  ailang-core/workspace, ailang-check (lib + lift + linearity + mono
  + pre_desugar_validation + reuse_shape + uniqueness),
  ailang-codegen (escape + lambda + lib), ailang-prose, and
  crates/ail/src/main.rs. Universal policy: substantive recurse-into-
  children at every site; only the two dispatch entry points
  (synth in ailang-check, lower_term in ailang-codegen) stub with
  Internal-error. One test-side walker arm in
  crates/ail/tests/codegen_import_map_fallback_pin.rs not
  enumerated by the plan was added as well (defensive recursion).

- ailang-surface: parse_mut + parse_assign helpers; Term::Mut
  body desugared from a flat statement sequence into a right-folded
  Term::Seq chain inside the JSON-AST. Print arms in print.rs match
  the parser convention. EBNF prologue + crates/ailang-core/specs/
  form_a.md productions updated. Four new parser pin tests cover
  the empty-mut, single-var, body-required, and vars-only-no-body
  cases.

- Drift + coverage tests extended: design_schema_drift.rs adds two
  exemplars + match arms; schema_coverage.rs adds two VariantTag
  entries + EXPECTED_VARIANTS + visit_term arms; spec_drift.rs adds
  two exemplars + match arms. DESIGN.md §'Term (expression)' gets
  jsonc-blocked schemas for the two new variants.

- examples/mut.ail: six-fn round-trip fixture exercising empty mut,
  single-var, two-var, nested-shadow, and the four supported scalar
  return types (Int, Float, Bool, Unit). The round_trip auto-glob
  and schema_coverage corpus walker both pick it up.

Plan deviation: the plan named lib.rs:2572 as the typecheck
dispatch stub site, but that line is actually verify_tail_positions
(substantive walker). The real dispatch is synth (3403-area, stub
at 3489); the orchestrator routed correctly.

Tests: 564 → 579 green; cargo build green; round-trip green for
the new fixture; all drift + coverage tests green.

Journal: docs/journals/2026-05-15-iter-mut.1.md.

Refs: docs/specs/2026-05-15-mut-local.md, docs/plans/2026-05-15-iter-mut.1.md.
2026-05-15 01:10:56 +02:00
Brummel abcdd05991 iter clippy-sweep: clear all 61 cargo clippy warnings
Hygiene sweep across the workspace under `cargo clippy --workspace
--all-targets`. Before: 61 warnings. After: zero. Tests stay 563
green, `cargo doc` stays at zero warnings, and all three bench
scripts exit 0 against existing baselines.

Twelve lint classes, three fix shapes:

- Documentation hygiene (~32 hits): `doc_lazy_continuation` resolved
  by adding blank lines before continuation paragraphs or rephrasing
  the offending line; plus four `empty_line_after_doc_comments` hits
  in workspace.rs where eight `///` blocks left orphan by form-a.1
  T5 test relocation were converted to plain `//`.
- Idiomatic refactors (~16 hits): `.err().expect()` → `.expect_err()`,
  redundant `.into_iter()` and `.into()` removed, `|f| g(f)` →
  `g`, `.trim().split_whitespace()` → `.split_whitespace()`,
  `push_str("x")` → `push('x')`, two manual `impl Default` flipped
  to `#[derive(Default)]` + `#[default]`, two nested `if let Some(_)
  = …` collapsed.
- Block extraction (1 hit): a 13-line block inside an `else if`
  condition in synth's Var-arm extracted to a new helper
  `is_class_method_dispatch(name, env)` next to
  `qualifier_is_class_shape`.

Three `#[allow]`s with inline rationale where clippy's suggestion
would lose meaning: `only_used_in_recursion` on walk_pattern (the
parameter preserves the five-fn walker-framework signature
uniformity), 2× `if_same_then_else` on qualify_local_types shapes
(two branches encode semantically distinct disqualification
reasons), `too_many_arguments` on `Emitter::new` (8 workspace-flat
tables; bundling would just rename boilerplate).
2026-05-14 00:48:17 +02:00
Brummel f38bad8c2b iter 24.1: bool_to_str + str_clone runtime + codegen wiring
First iter of milestone 24 (Show + print rewire). Wires two new
heap-Str-producing primitives parallel to hs.4's int_to_str /
float_to_str:

- runtime/str.c gains ailang_bool_to_str(bool) → heap-Str "true" /
  "false" and ailang_str_clone(const char *) → memcpy'd heap-Str
  copy. Both use the existing str_alloc slab helper.
- builtins.rs + synth.rs install the two signatures lockstep with
  ret_mode: Own; str_clone carries param_modes: [Borrow].
- IR-header preamble gains two unconditional `declare ptr @...`
  lines; Emitter::lower_app gets two new arms; is_static_callee
  whitelist extends with the two names.
- Five IR snapshots regenerate for the two new declares.
- Pre-existing-drift fix: int_to_str row added to builtins.rs::list()
  (hs.4 installed env.globals entry but missed the list() row).

Substantive deviation flagged by orchestrator (DONE_WITH_CONCERNS):
builtin signatures registered in uniqueness.rs::infer_module and
linearity.rs::check_module_with_visible (8 LOC × 2 files), symmetric
to iter 23.4-prep's class-method registration in the same globals
maps. Without this fix str_clone's param_modes: [Borrow] is invisible
to the App-arg walker, src_heap walks as Position::Consume, the
scope-close ailang_rc_dec is gated off, and the
str_clone_cross_realisation_uniform_abi test's plan-literal
`frees == 3` assertion does not hold. The fix is the substantively
correct repair, not a design departure.

9 new tests: 2 builtins-install unit, 2 IR-shape unit pins, 5 E2E
(2 RC-stats, 2 stdout-smoke for both Bool branches, 1 cross-
realisation). 4 new .ail.json fixtures.

Full cargo test --workspace: 513 passed, 0 failed.
bench/compile_check.py: 24/24 stable. bench/cross_lang.py: 25/25
stable.
2026-05-12 23:47:13 +02:00
Brummel 78e8338a8d iter eob.1: effect-op args walk as Borrow; heap-Str RC discipline closes
Language rule: Term::Do.args[*] are walked in Position::Borrow by
the uniqueness + linearity passes, symmetric to Term::Ctor.args[*]
being walked in Position::Consume. The kind itself carries the
ownership default — no per-op field on EffectOpSig. Three
analyser sites flip in lockstep: uniqueness.rs:289, linearity.rs:506,
and the shared doc-comment at linearity.rs:42.

Heap-Str-specific consequences (closing hs.4's leak):
- int_to_str / float_to_str ret_mode: Implicit → Own at four lockstep
  sites (builtins.rs:200,210 + synth.rs:172,179). The codegen
  trackability gate (drop.rs:464-475, iter 18g.2) now fires on these
  callees, so the let-binder receives a scope-close drop.
- drop_symbol_for_binder's App arm gets a Type::Con{name:"Str"} →
  "ailang_rc_dec" carve-out, symmetric to field_drop_call's existing
  Str arm. Without it, the new Own-trackable App binder would emit
  drop_<m>_Str (undefined).

Tests: the two pre-existing RED tests at e2e.rs (commit 592d87b)
flip to GREEN unchanged with predicted numbers (allocs=1,frees=1,
live=0 and allocs=2,frees=2,live=0). Two new positive tests pin
the rule's coverage: primitive-Int arg through io/print_int produces
zero RC traffic; heap-Str through 2× io/print_str in sequence
typechecks (no use-after-consume) and balances allocs=1,frees=1,
live=0.

DESIGN.md §Decision 10 gets the arg-position-policy table for both
AST node kinds (Ctor=Consume, Do=Borrow) plus a linking paragraph
explaining how Do=Borrow cooperates with ret_mode==Own.

heap-str-abi milestone closes here: WhatsNew entry shipped (Strings
produced at runtime now release cleanly), roadmap P1 entry checked
off, Post-22-Prelude depends-on line removed.

Workspace cargo test + cross_lang.py + compile_check.py all green.
check.py noisy latency cluster + bench_list_sum.bump_s ±12% — same
precedent as the previous two audits, not coupled to this milestone.
2026-05-12 21:29:05 +02:00
Brummel 92e830e6c2 iter 23.5: prelude free fns + E2E — Eq/Ord milestone close
Five polymorphic prelude free fns (ne/lt/le/gt/ge) plus three E2E
fixtures: positive composition over Int/Bool/Str, user-ADT with
user-written Eq/Ord on IntBox, and Float-NoInstance with a
Float-aware diagnostic addendum cross-referencing DESIGN.md §"Float
semantics".

Two checker-side fixes were needed alongside the prelude additions,
both symmetric to the iter 23.4-prep visibility fix:
- linearity::check_module_with_visible — workspace-aware callee-mode
  resolution so a Borrow-mode user fn forwarding into a prelude poly
  fn (e.g. `at_most x y = not (gt x y)`) doesn't false-fire
  consume-while-borrowed.
- mono::collect_mono_targets — distinguish rigid forall vars from
  unbound metavars; rigid-bearing free-fn targets skip (they get
  re-collected with concrete subst when the enclosing fn itself
  monomorphises). Without this, a polymorphic body calling another
  polymorphic free fn produced a spurious __Unit specialisation
  whose body referenced compare at Unit.

Roadmap split: shipped Eq/Ord half checked, Show + print-rewire half
remains pending behind the heap-Str ABI prerequisite. DESIGN.md
§"Prelude classes" amended.

One pre-existing fixture (test_22b1_missing_method) renamed its
class method ne → tne to avoid collision with the new prelude `ne`.

Bench: check.py + cross_lang.py exit 0; compile_check.py exits 1
with one sub-ms check_ms.local_rec_capture at +26% (tolerance 25%) —
prelude-growth-related noise-band fluctuation, ratifiable per spec
§248-249 and journal Concerns.
2026-05-12 00:38:52 +02:00
Brummel 0caaced7e8 iter 23.4-prep.1: linearity — register Def::Class method types in globals 2026-05-11 22:01:52 +02:00
Brummel 5fd95e4e9f iter 22-tidy.4: route 4 matches! sites through is_primitive_name 2026-05-10 04:15:47 +02:00
Brummel f25d7b6cd6 iter 22b.1.1: ClassDef/InstanceDef AST + downstream match arms
Adds Def::Class(ClassDef) and Def::Instance(InstanceDef) variants per
Decision 11 §"Form-A schema". All optional fields (superclass, doc,
default body) carry skip_serializing_if so canonical-JSON bytes of
pre-22b fixtures stay bit-identical.

Downstream match-on-Def sites are extended with explicit Class/Instance
arms. Behaviour for 22b.1 is placeholder (skip in typecheck/codegen,
one-line summary in pretty/manifest, placeholder marker in prose/print)
with TODO comments naming the deferred sub-iters (22b.2 typecheck,
22b.3 codegen, 22b.4 prose-projection arms).
2026-05-09 12:31:23 +02:00
Brummel 50b68267fe check: mode-strict-because suppression (iter 19b)
Closes the 19a/19a.1/19b arc. Corpus signal from 19a.1 (5/65
fixtures fire over-strict-mode, all deliberate RC codegen-test
fixtures) justified shipping the suppress mechanism end-to-end.

Schema: Suppress { code, because } on FnDef. Pre-19b hashes
bit-identical via skip_serializing_if. Typechecker drops matching
diagnostics; empty 'because' is Error severity; wrong codes are
silent no-ops (open-set registry).

Form-A: (suppress (code "...") (because "...")) clause, parser
+ printer round-trip clean. Form-B: '// @suppress <code>: <reason>'
above the doc string, lossless contract metadata.

5 RC fixtures migrated (.ail.json + .ailx + .prose.txt). Corpus
signal: 5/65 -> 0/65. Lint still fires on any future fn that's
accidentally over-strict without an authored reason.

Test counts: ailang-check 55->61, ailang-core 26->28, ailang-surface
21->26, ailang-prose 49->52, e2e 70 unchanged.

Known debt: .ailx comment headers lost on regen (ail render's
contract excludes comments); parse_suppress_attr accepts
duplicate code/because attrs without diagnose (bounded by canonical
print order).
2026-05-08 19:36:04 +02:00
Brummel 9f3f10ce6e check: precise sub-binder analysis for over-strict-mode (iter 19a.1)
Corpus-signal upgrade: orchestrator ran 19a's lint across 65
fixtures, zero warnings fired. The conservative match-scrutinee
carve-out filtered every (own T) fixture because every such body
destructures the param via match. Real-corpus signal warranted
the precise variant.

Precise rule: for an Own param with consume_count == 0, walk each
match arm whose scrutinee is the param; if any HEAP-TYPED
pattern-binder has consume_count > 0, stay silent (sub-consume
forces ownership). Otherwise fire.

Heap-type filter is the implementer's design call (not in the
brief): reading a primitive (h: Int) is load-by-value, no RC, no
heap-data move; reading heap-typed t: IntList IS a pointer move
requiring outer-cell ownership. Documented in module-doc.

Corpus signal after upgrade: 5/65 fixtures fire — all RC
codegen-test fixtures with deliberate over-strictness for the
codegen path. Justifies 19b (mode-strict-because suppression).

ailang-check test count: 53 → 55. e2e + everything else green.
Known debt: deeply-nested-match-on-sub-binder (no fixture hits).
2026-05-08 19:19:31 +02:00
Brummel 41804a39fb check: over-strict-mode lint (iter 19a)
When a fn-param is annotated (own T) but the body never consumes
it (consume_count == 0) and never destructures it via match, the
linearity pass now emits a Severity::Warning diagnostic with a
form-A-rendered (borrow T) rewrite as suggested_rewrite. Pure
advisory, Decision 10 unchanged.

First Warning-severity diagnostic the typechecker emits; three
CLI exit paths gated on Error-only.

JOURNAL: design entry + iter 19a shipping entry.
2026-05-08 17:56:58 +02:00
Brummel 74379b29e5 Iter 18d.1: Term::ReuseAs schema + linearity check
Schema floor for explicit reuse hints. Adds Term::ReuseAs
{ source: Box<Term>, body: Box<Term> } with serde tag "reuse-as",
form-A (reuse-as <source> <body>). Schema choice (wrapper, not
modifier-on-Ctor) and rationale recorded in DESIGN.md.

Codegen is identity under all --alloc strategies — lower body,
drop source on the floor. Iter 18d.2 will lower this as the
in-place rewrite under --alloc=rc.

User-facing diagnostics:
- typecheck reuse-as-non-allocating-body: body must be a
  Term::Ctor or Term::Lam, the two AST shapes that allocate.
  Other shapes (literal, var, app, ...) emit this with a
  suggested_rewrite that drops the wrapper.
- linearity reuse-as-source-not-bare-var: source must be a
  Term::Var referring to an in-scope binder. Anything else
  (literal, nested expression) is rejected here. Suggested
  rewrite drops the wrapper.
- linearity use-after-consume at a reuse-as site: source must
  not have been consumed earlier in the body. Suggested rewrite
  drops the wrapper.
- Visiting reuse-as marks source consumed for the rest of the
  body, so a subsequent use of the same binder flags
  use-after-consume against it.

Uniqueness inference treats source as Consume — the consume
shows up in the side table for the codegen consumer.

Tests:
- 4 surface parse-tests (round-trip, no-args, one-arg, full
  parse_term/term_to_form_a round-trip).
- 1 typecheck unit test (non-allocating body).
- 2 linearity unit tests (non-var source, after-consume).
- 1 integration test (happy-path map_inc in all-explicit mode
  is linearity-clean).
- 1 E2E test running the canonical map_inc-via-reuse-as fixture
  under --alloc=gc, asserting stdout 9.
- New fixture examples/reuse_as_demo.{ailx,ail.json}.

Test deltas: E2E 55 -> 56, ailang-check unit 43 -> 46,
ailang-check workspace 8 -> 9, surface 14 -> 18. cargo test
--workspace green. No existing fixture's canonical JSON changed.
2026-05-08 10:55:31 +02:00
Brummel 09fb5bb113 Iter 18c.2: linearity check + suggested_rewrites
Adds a per-fn linearity check that runs on every fn whose
param_modes are all explicit (Borrow or Own, no Implicit), tracks
each binder's consume/borrow state through the AST, and emits
two diagnostics with form-A `suggested_rewrites`:

- `use-after-consume` — a binder is referenced after it has
  already been consumed.
- `consume-while-borrowed` — a binder is consumed while a borrow
  of it is still live (sibling arg slot, or an enclosing-fn
  Borrow param).

Fns with any Implicit param skip the check entirely; that's the
back-compat lane that keeps every existing fixture green. Pure
diagnostic addition: no IR change, no codegen change, no runtime
change.

Each diagnostic carries a non-empty `suggested_rewrites` whose
`replacement` is form-A AILang text (typically `(clone <name>)`).
Adds two new public entrypoints to ailang-surface — `parse_term`
and `term_to_form_a` — so the round-trip
`parse_term(term_to_form_a(t)) ≡ t` is the contract every
emitted replacement must satisfy. Tests assert the contract.

Linearity pass runs only on modules that typechecked clean (any
upstream typecheck error suppresses it for that module — running
on partly-defined IR would produce noise).

Tests: 3 unit tests in `linearity::tests`, 3 integration tests
in `ailang-check/tests/workspace.rs`, 1 serialisation test in
`diagnostic.rs`. `cargo test --workspace` green.
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