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Brummel 39b674c1ec chore: throwaway mode-migration tool for the Implicit cutover (#55, 0121 task 3)
Adds `ail migrate-modes <file>` (a throwaway CLI subcommand) and the AST
walker `ailang_core::ast::for_each_fn_type_mut` it drives: parse a .ail,
map every bare/Implicit fn-type slot to Own, preserve explicit
Own/Borrow, print back. Semantically invisible today (PartialEq treats
Implicit == Own), but it materialises the modes so the post-cutover
parser — which will reject bare slots — accepts the migrated corpus.

Both are throwaway: removed in task 4 once ParamMode::Implicit is
deleted (the closure references Implicit and would not compile).
RED-first: migrate_modes.rs failed to compile (missing walker) before
for_each_fn_type_mut was added. Additive; full workspace suite green.

refs #55
2026-06-01 16:41:21 +02:00
Brummel e1c908912b feat(check): reject borrow-returns at the signature (#55, 0121 task 1)
`(ret (borrow T))` is now a check error (CheckError::BorrowReturnNotPermitted,
code `borrow-return-not-permitted`), fired on the fn signature before
body dataflow. Borrow-returns are refcount-invisible and can outlive
their source; re-enabling them needs the escape/liveness axis, which is
out of scope (spec 0062). The diagnostic names that gap as an honest
"not yet".

The check_fn signature destructure now also binds `ret_mode` (param_modes
stays under `..`; the borrow-over-value reject that reads it is folded
into the cutover, task 4). RED-first: examples/borrow_return_reject.ail
checked clean (exit 0) before the reject landed, exits 1 after. New
CLI-boundary E2E pin crates/ail/tests/mode_signature_rejects.rs, modelled
on raw_buf_new_type_arg_pin.rs. Additive — ParamMode::Implicit still
present; full workspace suite green, bench/check.py 0 regressed.

refs #55
2026-06-01 16:41:21 +02:00
Brummel aaa70d4c35 feat(check): harden the ownership analysis for universal activation (0063)
The strict linearity check (use-after-consume / consume-while-borrowed,
linearity.rs) runs today only on the ~45 of 258 all-explicit-mode fns;
its activation gate skips any fn with a bare/Implicit param. Deleting
ParamMode::Implicit (#55) would turn it on universally and surface ~21%
false positives in two classes. This closes both, making the core
ownership analysis sharp across the whole codebase for the first time —
the precondition for #55. Diagnostic-only: no schema, no hash, no
codegen change; the two existing diagnostic codes simply fire on a
smaller, more correct set.

Fix 1 — value-type exemption. A new is_value_type predicate
(ailang-core::primitives) names the unboxed set {Int,Bool,Float,Unit};
BinderState gains an is_value flag seeded from the binder's locally
available type (param signatures, ctor field types for pattern binders,
lam typed-params), and use_var short-circuits the Consume arm for it. A
value type has no refcount and is never consumed, so multi-read is
always legal.

  Str is deliberately NOT in the value set, though is_primitive_name
  includes it: drop.rs:490-492 lowers only Int/Bool/Float/Unit to
  non-ptr; Str is a ptr, RC-dec'd, so a multi-consume of Str without
  clone is a real use-after-free. is_value_type is the Str-excluding
  subset of is_primitive_name, pinned by a unit test. is_heap_type and
  the over-strict-mode lint are left untouched (separate concern).

Fix 2 — application is a borrow. Term::App walks its callee in
Position::Borrow (was Consume). Applying a function value reads it; it
stays live for further applications. Global fn-refs are untracked
(no-op); a tracked function-typed binder (a HOF param) is no longer
consumed by application. This fixes both the own-f-param
use-after-consume and the borrow-f-param consume-while-borrowed in the
recursion-passing HOF shape (map_int f t). Passing a function value as
an arg is unchanged — it follows the callee param_modes.

Scope decision: value-typed let-binders stay conservatively tracked as
heap (their type is inferred, not annotated, and the linearity walk
does not re-run inference). This is soundness-safe — over-strict, never
unsound — and not a measured corpus shape; lifting it would need a full
binder->type table out of the type-checker.

Verification: all three false-positive classes reproduced today against
explicit-mode fns and shipped as RED->GREEN fixtures
(examples/fp_{value,hof,map}.ail); examples/real_consume.ail stays RED
(heap double-consume still fires) to prove the exemption is type-gated.
715 workspace tests green; bench/check.py 0/34 and bench/compile_check.py
0/24 regressed. merge_states carries is_value so the flag survives
branch merges. RED-first verified per task.

closes #56
2026-06-01 15:38:32 +02:00
Brummel a378dad0aa docs(design): ratify the check→codegen boundary (mir.5, typed-MIR close)
mir.5 is the typed-MIR milestone's closing iteration. Its CODE half had
already converged before the iteration began, so mir.5 ships no code —
it ratifies into the design/ ledger the boundary the code already holds.

Verified at iteration entry (empirically, not from the spec sketch):
  - all four named re-derivers grep-clean in codegen: synth_with_extras,
    synth_arg_type, type_home_module, the second infer_module_with_cross;
  - lower_workspace takes &MirWorkspace (codegen consumes MIR);
  - MTerm::New is unreachable!() — raw-buf.4 desugars Term::New to
    (app T.new …) before codegen, so there is no element-type
    re-derivation left to relocate;
  - #51 / #53 (the element-type / new-T codegen crashes) are closed;
    their residue was fixed by ee4107c / 420f75f plus the New-desugar,
    not by a separate raw-buf patch track.

Ledger work (the mir.5 deliverable):
  - NEW design/contracts/0018-check-codegen-boundary.md: the invariant
    "codegen re-derives nothing; MIR is total over what check proved;
    a codegen arm that recomputes a fact instead of reading MIR is
    drift." Ratifier: lower_to_mir_ty.rs::callee_classification_builtin_and_static.
  - 0013-typeclasses invariant 2 retracted: codegen no longer re-resolves
    cross-module names via an import_map fallback; lower_to_mir::classify_callee
    resolves the reference once into Callee::Static and codegen consumes it.
  - 0003-pipeline.md: the "lower to MIR" line names the real stage
    (elaborate_workspace → MirWorkspace → lower_workspace) and a new
    paragraph states the boundary, cross-referencing 0018.
  - INDEX.md: boundary contract row added; qualified-xref re-pointed at
    lower_to_mir + 0018.
  - codegen_import_map_fallback_pin.rs doc-comment made honest — it pins
    the post-mono AST precondition classify_callee relies on, not a
    codegen-side resolution that no longer exists. Assertions unchanged;
    the test stays green.
  - spec 0060 gains a mir.5 refinement note recording the early code
    convergence.

Acceptance criteria 1-7 of docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md are all met.
Full workspace suite green (exit 0, 0 failed, 2 ignored); 708 passed
carried from mir.4 (no test added or removed).

Not done here (deliberately): the milestone #7 (raw-buf) subsumption
note is an external Gitea tracker write; the /boss auto-mode classifier
declined it as an unauthorised external write and it is surfaced to the
user rather than worked around. The end-to-end milestone fieldtest
remains the deliberate manual close-gate before the tracker milestone
is marked done.

refs #51 #53
2026-06-01 01:34:37 +02:00
Brummel c5fd16a4eb feat(codegen): StrRep loop-carried Str ⇒ Heap, close the #49 recur leak
mir.4 closes bug #49 (a heap-Str loop binder replaced across `recur`
leaks every superseded slab; the loop result leaks too) structurally,
by making every Str a loop binder holds OR a loop returns an owned heap
slab — then deleting the `!is_str` carve-out from BOTH codegen gates
that carried it. The leg-by-leg `!is_str` patches are gone.

Mechanism (the milestone thesis: representation in MIR, codegen reads
it). lower_to_mir sets rep = StrRep::Heap on every Str literal in a
loop-carried position; codegen's MTerm::Str arm promotes a Heap literal
via ailang_str_clone (a fresh ailang_rc_alloc slab, rc_header refcount
1). Three promotion positions, all in the Loop/Recur lowering:
  1. binder seed inits (is_str_ty on the binder type);
  2. recur args at Str-binder positions (read off the innermost
     loop_stack frame);
  3. exit-arm tail result literals (promote_tail_str_literals walks the
     loop body's tail positions when the loop returns Str).
With every loop-carried Str now owned-heap, both gates lose !is_str:
the recur superseded-value dec (lib.rs) frees each intermediate slab;
the loop-result trackability gate (drop.rs:493) lets the caller's
scope-close free the final slab.

Why both gates, and the planning-time error this corrects. The original
plan/spec scoped the deletion to the recur dec gate only, reasoning the
#49 loop result is "consumed by print". The implement-orchestrator
landed that scope (Tasks 1-2) clean and correctly BLOCKED: it took #49
from live=3 to live=1, the residual being the loop RESULT. I verified
the diagnosis empirically:
  - print BORROWS its arg (prelude: `(let s (show x) (do io/print_str
    s))`, the eob.1 heap-Str discipline), so `(print s)` does not free
    the loop result; the caller's let-binder does, via drop.rs:493.
    "consumed by print" != "freed by print" — that was the error.
  - Deleting drop.rs:493's !is_str takes #49 and the recur-literal
    fixture to live=0.
  - Deleting drop.rs:493 WITHOUT exit-arm promotion SIGSEGVs (exit 139)
    on a loop returning a static Str literal — hence the third
    promotion position and the static-exit witness.
The agent surfaced a real spec defect via an empirical BLOCK rather
than guessing; I corrected the spec refinement note (both gates, three
positions) and completed the loop-result leg inline, the context
already loaded from verifying the BLOCK (CLAUDE.md "already loaded
context" carve-out). drop.rs:493's Str carve-out is now sound to delete.

Boundary (asserted ill-typed, not constructible): a borrowed static-Str
Var seeded/recur'd into a consumed Str loop binder — rejected upstream
by uniqueness (a consumed binder position is owned).

Verification (orchestrator-run): all four leak fixtures reach live=0
under AILANG_RC_STATS — #49 (xyyy), recur-literal (reset), static-exit
(result), and the f488d31 boxed-ADT guard (2, no regression). The #49
#[ignore] is lifted. Full workspace: 708 passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored
(mir.3b baseline 702/0/3; +6 passed, -1 ignored = #49 lifted; the 2
remaining ignores are doctests). ir_snapshot: no drift (the Heap
promotion does not reach non-loop-carried literals — the
non_loop_str_literal_stays_static pin confirms at the unit level).
Neither CLAUDE.md lockstep pair touches Str representation.

New witness fixtures: examples/loop_str_recur_literal_no_leak_pin.ail
(recur-arg leg) and examples/loop_str_static_exit_no_leak_pin.ail
(loop-result leg / static-exit soundness). New pins: lower_to_mir_ty
exit-arm producer pin + the flipped seed/recur-arg pins; two runtime
leak pins alongside the lifted #49.

closes #49
2026-06-01 00:54:44 +02:00
Brummel eba1be8d9d feat(codegen): fill MArg.mode for App args, read the anon-temp drop gate off it, delete module_def_ail_types (mir.3b)
Second of two iterations delivering spec 0060's mir.3 row (plan
docs/plans/0118-mir.3b-marg-mode-and-table-delete.md). lower_to_mir's
Term::App arm fills each MArg.mode from the resolved callee's
param_modes (the sig = synth_pure(callee) it already holds); codegen's
emit_call anon-temp borrow-slot drop gate reads arg.mode instead of
re-looking-up the callee's param_modes from the module_def_ail_types
table; and — since that gate was the table's only reader — the
module_def_ail_types field plus all its construction and threading are
deleted.

Two refinements to the spec's mir.3b sketch, settled in planning from a
focused recon and recorded in spec 0060:

1. module_def_ail_types is deleted in mir.3b, not mir.5. A grep proved
   self.module_def_ail_types had exactly ONE reader (the anon-temp
   gate); the own-param drop reads param_modes from the def's own f.ty,
   not this table. Once the gate moves onto MArg.mode the table is dead,
   so it is removed now rather than carried as dead code to mir.5. The
   mir.5 row's "last re-derivation residue" shrinks to the
   element-type / Term::New (New.elem) work.

2. MArg.mode is filled for App args only; MTerm::Let.mode is not filled.
   Only App args have a real per-arg mode source (the callee
   Type::Fn.param_modes). Do args (EffectOpSig has no param modes), Ctor
   args (no per-field mode), and Recur args (loop binders carry no mode)
   stay Mode::Owned. Let.mode has no source (ast::Term::Let has no mode
   field) and no consumer (the let-drop gate reads consume, not
   Let.mode), so it stays Owned — filling it would invent a value
   nobody reads.

Safety property held: MArg.mode is filled from the same callee fn-type
the gate read from the table, so the drop fires identically. For
(app RawBuf.get (app RawBuf.set …) 0), RawBuf.get's param 0 is borrow,
so args[0].mode = Borrow — exactly the value module_def_ail_types
yielded. Confirmed by the anon-temp witness staying green.

ParamMode -> Mode conversion: Borrow -> Mode::Borrow; Own and Implicit
(the Implicit ≡ Own contract) -> Mode::Owned. The own-param drop keeps
reading ParamMode off f.ty (Type/ParamMode imports retained, live
readers at lib.rs:1356/1507).

Also retires three now-stale doc comments that named the deleted
module_def_ail_types field (ailang-check/src/lib.rs, uniqueness.rs, and
the codegen_import_map_fallback_pin test doc) — a direct consequence of
the deletion, reworded to the current architecture.

Verification (orchestrator, post-implement inspect): diff matches the
plan (App-arg m_args built before m_callee consumes sig — the benign
borrow-order deviation the plan's note flagged); module_def_ail_types
grep-clean across all of crates/; cargo build --workspace clean (no
unused/dead_code); cargo test --workspace 702 passed / 0 failed / 3
ignored (+1 = the new producer pin app_arg_carries_callee_borrow_mode;
no #[ignore] added). The anon-temp drop-correctness witness
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats stays live=0, now driven by
MArg.mode; the other RC-stats leak pins green; #49 stays #[ignore]
(mir.4); #51/#53 build guards green.

mir.3 is now complete (3a relocated consume_count + deleted the second
uniqueness run; 3b filled the mode annotation + deleted
module_def_ail_types). Remaining: mir.4 (#49 StrRep RED->GREEN),
mir.5 (element-type/Term::New + ledger).
2026-05-31 20:10:25 +02:00
Brummel 6bc0b501cb feat(codegen): relocate per-binder consume_count into MIR; delete codegen's second uniqueness run (mir.3a)
First of two iterations delivering spec 0060's mir.3 row (plan
docs/plans/0117-mir.3a-consume-count-relocation.md). The per-binder
consume_count — the only thing codegen read from its second
infer_module_with_cross run — now lives on a new binder-keyed
MirDef.consume: BTreeMap<String,u32>, filled once by lower_to_mir on the
post-mono body. Codegen builds its existing (def,binder)->consume_count
lookup from those maps and the three scope-close drop sites (own-param,
let-binder, match-arm) read it; the codegen uniqueness run, its
UniquenessTable field, and the import are deleted.

mir.3 is split into two iterations (recorded in spec 0060): the named
deletion depends ONLY on consume_count. All three drop sites read
consume_count from self.uniqueness, while the modes they also gate on
(param_modes for the own-param dec, scrutinee_is_owned for the match
dec) come from the type, not the uniqueness pass (UniquenessInfo carries
no mode). So mir.3a relocates consume_count and ships the deletion;
mir.3b (next) fills MArg.mode/MTerm::Let.mode and switches emit_call's
anon-temp gate onto MArg.mode. The split halves the change at the
codebase's highest-risk surface (RC/drop correctness, the raw-buf leak
saga) and makes each half independently verifiable against the live=0
leak pins.

Design: consume_count lands on MirDef (binder-keyed), NOT on MArg. The
drop sites key by (def, binder_name) — a per-binder aggregate — while the
spec-sketched MArg.consume_count is per-arg-position and never reaches
them; the per-def map matches the UniquenessTable's own keying and all
three binder kinds (param/let/pattern) uniformly. MArg.consume_count
stays a mir.1 default. Source = run check's infer_module_with_cross
inside lower_to_mir post-mono (the synth_pure single-engine-re-walked
pattern); retaining a check-time result is blocked (check's uniqueness
is pre-mono and runs on-demand-from-codegen, never in check_workspace,
so it would miss the mono specialisations). cross_module_types
(= codegen's module_def_ail_types) is rebuilt in elaborate_workspace
from the post-mono workspace.

Safety property held: this is a PURE RELOCATION of an identical
computation — infer_module_with_cross ran on the post-mono module in
codegen and now runs on the same post-mono module in lower_to_mir, so
drop placement is byte-identical. cross_module_types matches
module_def_ail_types exactly (both insert f.name->f.ty over post-mono
Def::Fn), confirmed by the leak pins staying green.

Verification (orchestrator, post-implement inspect): diff matches the
plan; codegen grep-clean for infer_module_with_cross + UniquenessTable
(now ailang-check-internal); cargo build --workspace clean (no errors,
no unused warnings — module_def_ail_types survives for emit_call's
anon-temp param_modes gate); cargo test --workspace 701 passed / 0
failed / 3 ignored (+1 = the new producer pin
mirdef_consume_is_populated_for_let_binder; no #[ignore] added). The
live=0 drop-correctness witnesses all green:
alloc_rc_loop_valued_rawbuf_binder_drops_at_scope_close (#43/#47),
alloc_rc_heap_loop_binder_replaced_by_recur_does_not_leak,
alloc_rc_print_int_does_not_leak_show_result_str. #49 stays #[ignore]
(mir.4); #51/#53 build guards green.
2026-05-31 19:48:57 +02:00
Brummel a6fd93adba feat(codegen): pre-resolve the App callee in MIR; delete is_static_callee + type_home_module (mir.2)
Second re-deriver removal of the typed-MIR milestone (spec
docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md, plan docs/plans/0116-mir.2-callee-static.md).
Static-callee resolution moves out of codegen and into lower_to_mir:
every Term::App callee is classified once, mirroring check's own synth
Term::Var ladder (lib.rs:3409-3582), and emitted as a resolved Callee.
Codegen reads the callee identity off MIR and routes each kind to the
right lowering. The codegen re-derivers is_static_callee and
type_home_module are deleted, and the lower_app <-> is_static_callee
lockstep pair is struck from CLAUDE.md.

Callee reshape (beyond the spec's original {module, fn_name} sketch —
spec 0060's Concrete-code-shapes block is updated in this iteration):

  pub enum Callee {
      Static  { module, fn_name, sig: Type },  // user/prelude fn -> emit_call, module pre-resolved
      Builtin { name, sig: Type },             // operator/intrinsic -> inline opcode lowering
      Indirect(Box<MTerm>),                    // dynamic: fn-pointer / closure / shadowed name
  }

Two forced refinements, both settled in planning:

- sig:Type on each resolved variant. drop::synth_callee_ret_mode reads
  the callee ret_mode, today off Callee::Indirect(inner).ty(). A
  resolved callee has no sub-term, so the sig (= synth_pure(callee),
  mode-preserving) is the lossless replacement. This is NOT a mir.3
  pull-forward: the MArg param-mode / consume_count fields stay at their
  mir.1 defaults. Without it, every statically-resolved call would lose
  its drop signal and the RawBuf / int_to_str RC-stats pins mir.1b fixed
  would regress.

- Builtin variant. Operators and the str-num builtins (+, not,
  str_concat, ...) are lowered inline by name and have no module/fn_name;
  a separate variant is cleaner than a sentinel module. The classifier
  decides Builtin vs Static from CHECK'S OWN resolution (a name in
  env.globals with no owning module is a builtin), never a copy of
  codegen's old is_static_callee allowlist. The recon's divergence audit
  confirmed check's builtin set and codegen's inline-arm set match
  exactly, so the single-engine rule is mechanically satisfiable with no
  env threading gap.

type_home_module is fully deletable: a workspace-wide grep confirmed no
program references a type-scoped T.fn as a value, so its only other
consumer (resolve_top_level_fn) collapses to the module-name fallback
with no behaviour change. (The spec's "x3 mirrors" wording over-counted;
the live surface was the definition plus two call sites.)

Alternatives rejected during planning: sentinel module in Static
(ugly); builtins left as Indirect (breaks — no fn-pointer for an
operator); name-rewrite Static{name,sig} keeping lower_app's by-name
dispatch (blurs builtin/user and still needs sig). The mir.1b
re-synth-strictness trap (post-mono synth_pure re-unify surfacing
mode-strip / bare-vs-qualified / metavar leaks) did NOT fire under the
new producer path — qualify_local_types mode-preservation and the $u
wildcard normalisation from mir.1b held.

Verification (orchestrator, post-implement inspect): diff matches the
plan; grep-clean for is_static_callee + type_home_module across
ailang-codegen and ail; cargo build --workspace green; cargo test
--workspace 700 passed / 0 failed / 3 ignored (no #[ignore] added this
iteration — the 3 are the pre-existing #49 Str-leg pin + two doctests).
Acceptance witnesses green: #53 (mono_new_over_user_adt_builds_and_runs),
#51 (rawbuf_new_int_size_only_builds_and_runs still builds), show_print
cross-module (print_user_adt_runs_end_to_end), the new mir.2 pins
(mir2_resolved_callee_kinds_run_end_to_end, callee_classification_*,
strengthened new_over_user_adt_carries_node_types asserting Callee::Static).
#49 heap-Str loop binder stays #[ignore] (lifts at mir.4).

Two new examples/ fixtures back the new pins (classify_pin.ail for the
producer classification pin, mir2_callee_kinds.ail for the E2E),
ail-parse / round-trip clean.

Forward note (cycle-close architect): crates/ail/tests/codegen_import_map_fallback_pin.rs:14-15
doc prose names lower_app's cross-module arm and synth_with_extras as
failure-mode targets — both now deleted (mir.2 / mir.1b). The pin's
protected invariant is still valid and green; the prose is stale and
wants a doc-honesty reword, left out of this iteration's footprint.
2026-05-31 19:27:56 +02:00
Brummel 895ba846e8 feat(codegen): switch the lowering walk from &Term to typed &MTerm (mir.1b)
Atomic completion of spec iteration mir.1 (docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md):
codegen now consumes the typed MIR produced by `lower_to_mir` instead of
re-deriving types from the bare `ast::Term`. Every codegen helper that
took `&Term` (lower_term, lower_app, drop.rs, match_lower.rs) takes
`&MTerm` and reads each node's checker-proved type off `MTerm::ty()`.
The build path is `Workspace -> elaborate_workspace -> MirWorkspace ->
lower_workspace`; the public `lower_workspace*` entry points and their 18
call sites thread `&MirWorkspace`. The codegen-side type re-derivers
`synth_with_extras` + `synth_arg_type` (and the `builtin_ail_type` /
`builtin_effect_op_ret` mirror tables) are deleted — grep-clean. The
three re-derivers the spec keeps until mir.2/mir.3 (`type_home_module`,
`is_static_callee`, the second `infer_module_with_cross`) stay.

The mechanical Term->MTerm match-arm conversion was straightforward and
compiler-enforced. The substance was a set of producer-side correctness
gaps that only surface once codegen reads `MTerm::ty()` and once the
build path re-synthesises the post-mono AST through the canonical
`synth` (which, unlike the old codegen, fully re-unifies). Each was
root-caused against a failing e2e fixture:

1. `qualify_local_types` stripped fn-type modes (rebuilt `Type::Fn` with
   empty `param_modes` / `Implicit` `ret_mode`), so a monomorphised
   polymorphic intrinsic (`RawBuf.set`) lost its `Own` ret-mode and the
   owned temporary leaked at the call site. Made mode-preserving, like
   its sister `qualify_workspace_types` and `Subst::apply` (449df13).

2. `lower_to_mir::synth_pure` synthesises each node in isolation, so a
   nullary polymorphic ctor (`Nil : List<a>`) left its element type an
   unbound `$m` metavar that the canonical synth never pins. Codegen's
   mono unifier (`unify_for_subst`) already has a wildcard for exactly
   this — `$u`, the spelling the now-deleted codegen synth used — so the
   typed-MIR boundary normalises every residual `$m` to `$u` once
   (`wildcard_residual_metavars`), rather than teaching each consumer to
   tolerate a raw metavar.

3. The class-method mono arm (`synthesise_mono_fn`) substituted the
   registry-canonical *qualified* instance type into a method appended to
   the instance's own module, minting a `show_user_adt.IntBox` param
   against a bare-`IntBox` body. Localised to bare before substitution,
   symmetric to the free-fn arm (600565d).

4. Monomorphisation synthesises *downward* class-dispatch references —
   prelude's `print__<IntBox>` names the instance module `show_user_adt`
   that prelude never imports. The post-mono re-synth in `lower_module`
   seeds every workspace module name as an identity import (excluding the
   current module, to keep own types bare) so the qualified-var path
   resolves these; the canonical `synth` used by `check_workspace` stays
   strict.

5. Post-mono, a cross-module callee can name the consumer's *own* ADT
   qualified (`show_user_adt.IntBox`) where the consumer synthesises it
   bare — a spelling split that cannot exist pre-mono (the param is
   polymorphic there). synth's App arm strips the current module's own
   qualifier from both sides before unifying (`strip_own_module_qual`),
   a no-op pre-mono.

Acceptance: whole workspace suite green (698 tests); `e2e` 98/98 and
`show_print_e2e` 3/3; `synth_with_extras`/`synth_arg_type` grep-clean in
codegen; #51/#53 fixtures build and run; lower_to_mir_ty pins green. The
#49 heap-Str loop-binder leak remains ignored (lifts at mir.4).

Builds on the standalone producer fix (600565d, free-fn own-ADT
localisation) and the two standalone mode-preservation fixes
(449df13 Subst::apply); those landed separately as they are
independently correct and inert on the old codegen.
2026-05-31 18:29:36 +02:00
Brummel 449df13c9c fix(check): preserve fn-type modes through Subst::apply
`Subst::apply` rebuilt every `Type::Fn` with `param_modes: vec![]`
and `ret_mode: Implicit`, discarding the modes the surrounding type
carried. That was harmless while nothing downstream of inference read
fn-type modes — but it is a latent under-specification: substitution
is meant to be type-preserving, and a fn type's modes are part of its
identity (an `(own T) -> (own U)` contract is not the same contract as
its borrow-returning sibling). Modes are positional over `params`, and
substitution remaps each param type element-wise without changing the
arity, so the mode lists stay aligned — preserving them is a clone, not
a re-derivation.

The typed-MIR boundary (milestone 0060) makes this load-bearing: a node
type synthesised by `lower_to_mir::synth_pure` ends with `subst.apply`,
and the codegen drop path reads `ret_mode == Own` off a call's callee
node to decide RC trackability. With the modes stripped here, an
Own-returning call read back `Implicit`, nothing was trackable, and a
heap-allocated binder leaked at scope close. Preserving the modes
restores that signal at the source rather than re-deriving it in codegen
(which is exactly the re-derivation the milestone exists to delete).

Safe by construction: `unify`'s Fn arm destructures modes with `..` and
compares only params/ret/effects, so carrying modes through `apply`
cannot change unification; and `Type`'s custom `PartialEq` already
treats `Implicit` and `Own` as interchangeable (only `Borrow` is
distinct), so equality outcomes are unaffected except where preserving
a `Borrow` is the more correct answer anyway. Whole `ailang-check`
suite stays green.

RED pin: crates/ailang-check/tests/subst_preserves_modes.rs.
2026-05-31 18:01:24 +02:00
Brummel 600565d356 fix(check): localize own-ADT type-args in free-fn mono; complete the lower_to_mir producer
Additive producer-side work for the typed-MIR milestone (spec
docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md), surfaced while building the mir.1b
codegen-consumption switch. Nothing here consumes MIR — codegen is
untouched; the whole existing suite stays green and one new RED pin
goes green. The mir.1b codegen switch itself stays in the working tree.

Headline fix — own-ADT type-arg localization in free-fn mono:

  monomorphise_workspace's free-fn arm normalises every observed
  type-arg through Registry::normalize_type_for_lookup. That
  normalisation is load-bearing for cross-module dedup and a stable
  specialisation symbol name, but it qualifies a *defining-module-own*
  ADT to `<module>.<T>`. synthesise_mono_fn_for_free_fn then substitutes
  those qualified type-args into the polymorphic source signature and
  body, which are in the module's own *bare* convention (the qualify
  pre-pass deliberately leaves own-module type-cons bare — lib.rs:4358,
  "the current module sees its own types bare"). The result is a
  self-inconsistent specialisation: e.g. fold_left specialised with
  accumulator b := List<Int> minted
    ((std_list.List<Int>, Int) -> std_list.List<Int>,
     std_list.List<Int>, List<Int>) -> std_list.List<Int>
  — a qualified accumulator parameter against a bare list argument and a
  bare Lam body. check_workspace never hits this (it synths the pre-mono
  bodies, bare throughout); the old codegen tolerated it via the
  now-deleted synth_arg_type's loose type-tracking. The post-mono synth
  re-entry in lower_to_mir does full unification and correctly rejects
  it: `expected std_list.List<Int>, got List<Int>`.

  Fix: localize_own_types (mono.rs) strips the `<defining_module>.`
  prefix back to bare for the module's own ADTs, applied to the type-args
  before they are substituted, so the synthesised signature and body stay
  uniformly bare-own. The *stored* type_args remain normalised, so the
  symbol name and the Phase-3 rewrite-cursor key on the same canonical
  form — the byte-identity invariant between synthesis and rewrite is
  untouched. The ClassMethod arm needs no analogue: it already
  substitutes the un-normalised target.type_ (mono.rs:841).

  Alternatives rejected: (a) drop the normalisation in the shared
  apply_subst_and_normalize helper — breaks cross-module dedup, mints
  duplicate specialisations under divergent names. (b) Make
  lower_to_mir's synth treat `<owner>.T` and bare `T` as equal during
  unification — papers over the producer inconsistency in the consumer
  and contradicts the established own-types-stay-bare invariant the rest
  of check relies on. (c) Qualify the whole synthesised def own->qualified
  — fights lib.rs:4358 and would require the lower path to also flip,
  cascading the convention change through synth.

Producer completeness (additive, mirrors existing guards):

  - lower_module skips Type::Forall defs (lower_to_mir.rs), mirroring
    emit_module's guard. Polymorphic defs are stale source kept for
    round-trip; their bodies carry mono-rewritten call names for
    specialisations that were never synthesised, so a synth re-entry
    would hit UnknownIdentifier.
  - lower_module lowers non-literal const bodies to typed MTerm, carried
    in MirModule.consts (+ MirConst in ailang-mir). A non-literal const
    (e.g. a List ctor expression) needs a typed body once the consumer
    walk takes &MTerm; literal consts emit a global and need no body.
  - MirModule gains `ast: Module`, populated by lower_module — forward
    scaffolding the mir.1b codegen consumption reads for module
    structure. Populated here, consumed by the in-tree switch.

Verification: full `cargo test --workspace` green (697 passed, 0 failed)
with the codegen-consumption switch stashed out, including the new pin
crates/ailang-check/tests/lower_to_mir_ty.rs::poly_free_fn_accumulating_into_own_adt_elaborates
(RED before the localize fix with the exact mismatch above, GREEN after)
and the full e2e corpus (the own-ADT-poly demos elaborate clean and run
through the old codegen). This proves the producer fix is
regression-free and the remaining 22 e2e reds in the working tree are
codegen-consumption defects, not producer defects.
2026-05-31 17:41:05 +02:00
Brummel 135f4ceed7 feat(check): mir.1a — typed-MIR types + post-mono lower_to_mir + elaborate_workspace (additive)
First half of spec iteration mir.1 (docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md,
plan docs/plans/0114-mir.1a-mir-infrastructure.md). Purely additive: a
new leaf crate plus a post-mono lowering walk plus the front-end entry.
Nothing consumes MIR yet — codegen and the CLI are untouched — so the
whole existing suite stays green (102 test-result-ok lines, 0 failed;
the one ignored is the #49 pin, which lifts at mir.4). mir.1b flips
codegen to consume MIR and deletes the synth_with_extras mirror.

What lands:
- `ailang-mir` (new leaf crate, depends only on ailang-core): MTerm /
  MArg / MArm / MLoopBinder / MNewArg / Callee / Mode / StrRep / MirDef
  / MirModule / MirWorkspace, structurally complete over all 17 Term
  variants plus the dedicated Str split (MTerm::Str{lit,rep}). Every
  later-iteration annotation field exists now at a mir.1 default
  (App.callee = Indirect, MArg.mode/consume_count = Owned/1, Str.rep =
  Static, New.elem = None); the struct shape will not change across
  mir.2–mir.5, only the values. MTerm::ty() reads the carried type.
- `ailang-check::lower_to_mir`: the post-mono walk. Carries no second
  type engine — it calls the canonical `synth` per node with fresh
  throwaway inference scaffolding (subst/counter/residuals/…), applies
  the substitution, and threads only the lexical locals/loop_stack,
  maintained by the same push/pop rules synth uses (Let, Loop, Lam,
  LetRec, and Match via synth's own type_check_pattern). This is the
  "one engine, not two" property the milestone buys, on the producer
  side.
- `ailang-check::elaborate_workspace`: the single front-end entry —
  check (diagnostics gate) → desugar+lift → monomorphise → lower_to_mir
  — transcribed from the CLI build path. check_workspace stays for the
  diagnostics-only callers.
- Three ty-fill pins (crates/ailang-check/tests/lower_to_mir_ty.rs)
  load the #51/#53/#49 witnesses as fixtures and elaborate the whole
  workspace, so lower_to_mir is exercised over the full prelude+kernel,
  not just the tiny witness. Two new witness fixtures
  (examples/new_{rawbuf_size_only,counter_user_adt}.ail); #49 reuses the
  existing loop_recur_str_binder_no_leak_pin.ail.

Deviations from the plan, all forced by ground truth and verified
against the live code before commit:
- FnDef.export is Option<String>, not bool — dropped from MirDef (the
  plan's note allowed this fallback). Codegen reads FnDef.export
  directly, unaffected.
- fn_param_types did not exist — lifted the param-type extraction into
  a shared pub(crate) fn and rewired both mono.rs sites
  (collect_mono_targets, collect_rewrite_targets) to it, so the
  param-type source cannot drift between mono and lower_to_mir. The
  helper unwraps a top-level Forall then reads Type::Fn.params —
  identical to the inner_ty extraction it replaces; the early-return
  non-fn guard is preserved at both sites. Behaviour-preserving (whole
  suite green; this is the only edit to existing mono behaviour).
- lower_module mirrors two more mono.rs scaffolding rules the plan
  under-transcribed: skip intrinsic-bodied fns (they are
  signature-only; lowering them would hit synth's Term::Intrinsic
  guard) and seed env.current_module + env.globals + env.imports per
  module so synth's Var lookup resolves post-mono specialisations
  (e.g. compare__Int) in the prelude.
- The #53 pin asserts the lowered (new Counter 42) init carries ty
  Counter, not that it is an MTerm::New: a monomorphic `new` over a
  user ADT is desugared to a dotted call `(app Counter.new 42)` before
  lower_to_mir runs (desugar.rs:1078-1098), so it lowers to MTerm::App.
  MTerm::New survives only for a polymorphic `new` carrying a written
  NewArg::Type (the #51 RawBuf path, covered by the rawbuf pin). The
  pin's intent — ty-fill correctness — is preserved; the structural
  variant is mir.2/mir.5 territory.
- ailang-mir uses workspace-inherited Cargo fields for consistency with
  the existing crates (added it to [workspace.dependencies]).

refs #49
2026-05-31 14:04:03 +02:00
Brummel 02775b58ca test(codegen): mark the #49 Str-leg RED pin #[ignore] pending the representation spec
The Str-leg pin (committed 04f75c8) is RED on main: a heap-Str loop
binder replaced by `recur` leaks every superseded slab (live=3). Closing
it turned out NOT to be a mechanical fix. The "clone the static seed"
approach only covers the common accumulator shape (a fresh `str_concat`
result each iteration); it does not cover a `recur` arg or loop result
that is itself static, nor a phi-join of (static, heap) Str whose runtime
value may be static — and `ailang_rc_dec` on a static-Str pointer is UB
(no rc_header; rc.c has no runtime guard, per
design/contracts/0011-str-abi.md). A correct fix needs the deliberate
"every Str in loop-carried state is heap" representation decision that
commit f488d31 flagged as pending — routed through brainstorm.

This `#[ignore]` keeps `main`'s `cargo test --workspace` green while that
design cycle runs. The assertion body — the live=0 contract — is
unchanged; the GREEN implementation removes the `#[ignore]`. The ADT-leg
guard stays an active green test. Forward-fix only; main HEAD untouched.

refs #49
2026-05-31 11:21:52 +02:00
Brummel 04f75c8b71 test(codegen): RED-pin #49 Str leg — heap-Str loop binder must not leak across recur
A heap-Str accumulator threaded through a `(loop …)`/`recur` as a loop
binder leaks: each iteration's superseded `str_concat` slab is never
RC-dec'd, even when the loop's final result is consumed. The fixture
reports `allocs=4 frees=1 live=3` under AILANG_RC_STATS (stdout `xyyy`
is correct).

Root (data-flow traced): the `Term::Recur` arm in
crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs (~2131) gates its superseded-value dec
behind `!is_str`. That exclusion exists because a `Str` loop seed may be
a static-literal Str — a constexpr GEP into a packed-struct global with
no rc_header (lib.rs:1612) — and `ailang_rc_dec` on a static pointer
reads garbage at `payload-8` and aborts on underflow (rc.c:221, no
runtime guard, per design/contracts/0011-str-abi.md). So the Str binder's
prior heap slab is overwritten by a plain `store` with no dec.

Distinct from the loop-RESULT scope-close drop (8bcdae1, which also
excluded Str) and from the ADT leg already fixed in f488d31 — this is
the per-iteration leak of the *intermediate* Str binder values, which
f488d31 explicitly left open pending a representation decision.

RED test crates/ail/tests/loop_recur_str_binder_no_leak_pin.rs with
fixture examples/loop_recur_str_binder_no_leak_pin.ail: the Str leg
asserts live=0 (RED at HEAD, live=3); the ADT leg (f488d31) is re-pinned
as a green guard so a regression on the shared Term::Recur dec path is
caught with it.

GREEN side (chosen direction): promote a static-literal Str seed to heap
via str_clone at loop entry so every Str binder slot holds a heap Str
with a valid rc_header, then lift the `!is_str` recur-dec exclusion. This
UPHOLDS the 0011-str-abi codegen-proof invariant (extends "static Str
never reaches dec" to the loop case) rather than adding a runtime guard.

refs #49
2026-05-31 04:09:44 +02:00
Brummel 420703d321 fix(codegen): resolve the dotted T.new user-ADT callee, symmetric to check
A monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` over a user-defined ADT that declares a
`new` fn passed `ail check` but crashed `ail build --alloc=rc` with
`unknown variable: Counter.new` (RED-pinned in 1eff055).

Root: the `Term::New` desugar lowers a no-type-arg monomorphic
`(new Counter 42)` to `(app Counter.new 42)` — a type-scoped `Var`
callee `Counter.new`. The checker resolves that dotted callee via its
TypeDef-first ladder (so check is clean), but codegen had no equivalent
resolution: the name was absent from the import map and the current
module's def list, so it fell through to `CodegenError::UnknownVar`. The
user `new` fn body IS codegen'd — only the dotted call-site failed to
resolve. The error surfaced first in the arg-type pre-pass
(`synth_with_extras`'s dotted-Var branch), which `lower_term`'s
`Term::Let` arm runs before lowering the call.

Fix (crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs, all `// #53`):
- New `Emitter::type_home_module(type_name)`: returns the module
  declaring the named TypeDef (current module first, then any import
  target) by scanning `module_ctor_index` for a matching
  `CtorRef.type_name`. This mirrors the checker's TypeDef-first ladder.
- A dotted `T.def` fallback (resolve via the type's home module) added
  to the three sites that needed it: `resolve_top_level_fn` (the
  fn-pointer / lower_app resolution path), `is_static_callee` (its
  lockstep partner), and the `synth_with_extras` dotted-Var branch (the
  path that actually fired for this fixture).

Lockstep (CLAUDE.md `lower_app` ↔ `is_static_callee`): `is_static_callee`
now returns true for a dotted `T.def` whose `T` is a user ADT declared
in this or an imported module, exactly matching `resolve_top_level_fn`'s
new fallback — so no name is claimed static without being lowerable.

Distinct root from #51 (the polymorphic `(new T <elem> …)` type-arg
drop, ee4107c) — that fix deliberately left the monomorphic
app-lowering path unchanged; this completes it.

Verification: the #53 pin (crates/ail/tests/user_adt_new_mono_pin.rs)
is green; the original 3-module reproducer
examples/fieldtest/kem_2_counter_new.ail builds, runs, prints 42;
ailang-codegen/check/core suites, the intercepts bijection, and both
hash-pins are green; full workspace green.

closes #53
2026-05-31 03:52:23 +02:00
Brummel 1eff055a0e test(codegen): RED-pin #53 — monomorphic (new T args) over a user ADT must build
A monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` over a user-defined ADT that declares a
`new` fn passes `ail check` but crashes `ail build --alloc=rc` with
`unknown variable: Counter.new`. Distinct root from #51 (the polymorphic
type-arg drop, fixed by ee4107c) — the #51 fix deliberately left the
monomorphic app-lowering path unchanged.

Root (data-flow traced): the `Term::New` desugar
(crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs ~1091) lowers the no-type-arg
monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` to `Term::App { callee:
Var("Counter.new") }`. The checker's TypeDef-first ladder resolves that
dotted callee, so `ail check` is clean; codegen's call-lowering
(`lower_app` / `is_static_callee` in crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs)
does not recognise the dotted `Counter.new` user-ADT constructor callee,
so the `Term::Var` arm falls through to `CodegenError::UnknownVar`
(lib.rs:1712). The documented `lower_app`↔`is_static_callee` lockstep
pair — a check↔codegen disagreement on whether `Counter.new` resolves.
The user `new` fn body IS codegen'd; only the dotted call-site is
unrecognised.

The RED test is minimal and autonomous: a single inline module (user
ADT + `new` fn + a `main` calling `(new Counter 42)`), minimised from
the 3-module 35-symbol kem_2_counter_new.ail reproducer — the
match/print scaffolding is dropped because the crash is at the
call-site lowering, independent of how the result is consumed. Asserts
check passes, build succeeds, the binary runs and prints `ok`. RED at
HEAD (fails at build with the exact symptom). GREEN side resolves the
dotted T.new user-ADT callee at codegen, symmetric to the checker.

refs #53
2026-05-31 03:33:03 +02:00
Brummel ee4107c721 fix(check): honour the written element type-arg on polymorphic (new T …)
A `(new RawBuf (con Int) 3)` whose buffer is never observed by a later
get/set passed `ail check` but crashed `ail build` with
`RawBuf_new__Unit has no registered intercept`, and a forbidden
`(new RawBuf (con Unit) 3)` was wrongly accepted at check. Both legs
share one root: the `Term::New` desugar discarded the author's written
`NewArg::Type` before anything could use it.

This was never an inference problem. The element type is EXPLICITLY
known — the author wrote `(con Int)`. The defect was that the desugar
threw that known type away and relied on re-discovering it from
downstream use; with no use (size-only), `RawBuf.new`'s result-only
forall var stayed unpinned, mono Unit-defaulted it, and codegen aborted
on the unregistered `RawBuf_new__Unit` intercept. The fix USES the
written type instead of inferring it.

Mechanism:
- desugar.rs: a polymorphic `(new T <elem> …)` (carrying a written
  `NewArg::Type`) now SURVIVES into check instead of being lowered to
  `(app T.new …)`. A monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` (no type-arg) keeps
  the raw-buf.4 app-lowering unchanged.
- lib.rs synth `Term::New` arm: (a) validates the written element type
  against the constructed type's `param_in` set via
  `check_type_well_formed`, firing `ParamNotInRestrictedSet` naming the
  forbidden element (leg 2) — synth is the correct site because it has
  Env/registry access, unlike `pre_desugar_validation`; (b) binds the
  result-only forall var DIRECTLY to the written type (`?a := Int`, a
  trivial binding, no inference channel) by pushing a `FreeFnCall` whose
  metas are the written concrete types, so mono mints
  `RawBuf_new__<elem>` and never `__Unit`.
- mono.rs: `rewrite_mono_calls` and `interleave_slots` gain matching
  `Term::New` arms that each consume exactly one free-fn slot at a
  type-arg-bearing `Term::New` (mirroring synth's single observation,
  pushed before the value-args), and `rewrite_mono_calls` reduces the
  node to `(app <mangled> <value-args>)` so codegen never sees
  `Term::New` and the lib.rs:2200 `unreachable!` stays valid. The two
  walkers stay in lockstep.

The Unit-default policy in mono stays correct for genuinely-unobservable
vars (`is_empty(Nil)` etc.); only the case with a written `NewArg::Type`
is changed.

Alternatives rejected: an additive `type_args` field on `Term::App`
(~100 construction sites across 7 crates — a detour that builds a new
transport slot only to copy the already-known type into it); a runtime
type-witness parameter on `RawBuf.new` (invents a runtime value for a
pure type property); an identity-lambda wrapper carrying the element in
its param-type (hides a semantic property in a runtime construct). The
written type belongs where the author put it, carried to the one point
that consumes it.

Verification: both RED legs (committed 61b9d3f) now green; full
check/codegen/core/surface suites green; intercepts bijection and
hash-pin tests green; existing raw-buf int/float/bool fixtures still
build and run leak-clean (live=0).

Out of scope (pre-existing at HEAD, separate issue): a monomorphic
`(new Counter 42)` over a user ADT fails with `unknown variable:
Counter.new` — unrelated to the type-arg drop fixed here.

closes #51
2026-05-31 03:03:14 +02:00
Brummel 61b9d3f513 test(raw-buf): RED-pin #51 — (new T <elem> …) must honour the element type-arg
Two failing E2E tests pinning the two legs of the #51 codegen crash,
both rooted in the `Term::New` desugar dropping `NewArg::Type`
(crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs:1053):

- Leg 1 (legitimate): `(new RawBuf (con Int) 3)` used only via
  `RawBuf.size` — never observed by get/set, so the dropped `(con Int)`
  is the sole element-type carrier. The unpinned forall var defaults to
  Unit in mono and `ail build --alloc=rc` aborts on the unregistered
  `RawBuf_new__Unit` intercept. Pins build+run printing `3`.

- Leg 2 (forbidden): `(new RawBuf (con Unit) 3)` — Unit is outside the
  param-in set {Int, Float, Bool}, but the dropped type-arg never reaches
  param-in enforcement, so `ail check` wrongly passes. Pins a
  `param-not-in-restricted-set` rejection naming Unit at check time.

Both RED at HEAD. GREEN side carries the explicit element type from
Term::New through to monomorphisation (must not mint __Unit) and adds the
leg-2 reject pre-desugar per the Term::New/desugar lockstep.

refs #51
2026-05-31 02:05:02 +02:00
Brummel f488d314e8 fix(codegen): dec superseded heap loop-binder values across recur (ADT leg)
A heap value threaded through a `(loop ...)`/`recur` as a loop binder
leaked: the `Term::Recur` arm stored each new arg into the binder's
loop-carried alloca with a plain `store` and never RC-dec'd the heap
value already in that slot, so every iteration's superseded value was
lost. The scope-close drop path (drop.rs, commit 8bcdae1) only ever
sees the loop's FINAL result, never the intermediates.

The recur store now decs the prior value before overwriting it, gated
by the SAME predicate the scope-close path uses — RC-heap AND lowers
to `ptr` AND not `Str`. The binder slot tuple is widened to carry the
binder's AILang type so the gate and the typed drop-symbol lookup
(`field_drop_call`) are available at the store. A same-pointer guard
(`icmp eq prior, new`) skips the dec when a `recur` threads the
identical pointer back — the own->own case (RawBuf fill loops, where
`RawBuf.set` mutates in place), so a retained buffer is never freed.

Scope: the boxed-ADT leg only. Every ADT value is heap-allocated, so
dec'ing a superseded ADT binder is unambiguously UB-free. A `Str`
accumulator is deliberately NOT covered: `Str` literals lower to
constexpr-GEPs into static globals (no rc_header), so a `Str` loop
seed may be static and dec'ing it would be UB. That is the same
static-vs-heap-`Str` obstacle behind 8bcdae1's deliberate `Str`
exclusion; the `Str` accumulator leak remains open in #49 pending a
runtime representation decision.

RED test in crates/ail/tests/loop_recur_heap_binder_no_leak_pin.rs
threads a boxed `Cell` through three recurs: pre-fix allocs=5 frees=2
live=3, post-fix live=0, stdout 2. Verified: zero-recur ADT control
live=0 (no spurious dec), Int loops (isqrt/collatz/gcd) live=0
(non-ptr, no dec), RawBuf fill loops live=0 out 35/16 (same-pointer
guard), Str accumulator unchanged (live=3, no crash).

refs #49
2026-05-30 17:48:51 +02:00
Brummel a92bcaf969 fix(check): qualify cross-module kernel type-cons in user ADT fields
A consumer module's ADT field could reference a kernel-tier
auto-imported type by its bare name in op/value positions
(`(new RawBuf ...)`, `RawBuf.get`) but NOT in the type-constructor
position of the field declaration: `(con RawBuf (con Int))` stayed
the unqualified `RawBuf<Int>` and failed to unify with the
constructor argument's `raw_buf.RawBuf<Int>`, so a RawBuf could not
be stored in a user ADT field without spelling the qualified
`raw_buf.RawBuf`.

`qualify_workspace_module` skipped `Def::Type` entirely, and the
`Term::Ctor` arm only qualified field types of cross-module *owning*
types — a *local* type carrying a cross-module field was the
uncovered case. The fix qualifies each ctor field type in the
`Def::Type` arm via the existing `qualify_workspace_types`, which
upgrades only genuinely cross-module type-cons (skips
`own_local_types` and primitives), so a purely-local field is never
spuriously rewritten. This is a check-side workspace transform, not
the on-disk canonical form, so no module hash drifts (both hash-pin
tests stay green).

RED test `rawbuf_in_user_adt_field_resolves_bare_name` in
crates/ailang-check/tests/workspace.rs, with the bare-name fixture
(now checks/builds/runs -> 42, live=0, the ADT drop cascade frees
the buffer slab) and the qualified control twin.

This is the Series-substrate shape (a RawBuf wrapped in a user ADT),
so the inconsistency would have bitten the pending series milestone.

closes #50
2026-05-30 17:48:34 +02:00
Brummel 8bcdae1b53 fix(codegen): drop a let-bound owned loop result at scope close
An owned heap value whose `let`-binding value is a `(loop ...)` result,
afterwards only borrow-read (or unused), was never dropped at scope close
— a memory leak (AILANG_RC_STATS live=1). Newly observable once #47 made
fill-loops build: rawbuf_2_running_max leaked one buffer per run.

Root cause: is_rc_heap_allocated — the predicate the let-lowering uses to
decide a scope-close `dec` — matched only Term::Ctor, Term::Lam and
Own-returning Term::App. A Term::Loop-valued binder fell through to false,
so it was never registered for drop. (Sibling of the #47 synth gap: the
Term::Loop arm under-handled in yet another pass.)

Fix: add a Term::Loop arm that tracks the binder iff the loop's static
result type lowers to llvm `ptr` (boxed/heap) AND is not Str — and widen
drop_symbol_for_binder's App arm to cover Term::Loop so it resolves the
per-type drop symbol. Two load-bearing safety gates:
  - the `ptr` gate excludes unboxed primitives (Int/Bool/Float/Unit), so
    an Int-returning loop is not handed to a drop fn;
  - Str is excluded because a loop can return a *static* Str (a seed
    literal threaded unchanged) and ailang_rc_dec on a static-Str pointer
    is UB; an Own-App can never return a static Str, which is why the App
    arm may track Str but the Loop arm must not.
The loop's seed binders are consumed (moved in), so nothing else tracks
the result; linearity guarantees no alias, so the new drop is single.

Verified leak-clean and double-free-free across the fieldtest RawBuf set,
the consumed case, the Int-gate case, and the escape case (a fn returning
a loop-built owned RawBuf to its caller).

The separate per-iteration leak of superseded heap loop-binder values
(e.g. a Str accumulator threaded through recur) is a distinct, broader
pre-existing bug, filed separately — not addressed here.

RED-first: raw_buf_loop_no_leak_pin.
2026-05-30 17:14:28 +02:00
Brummel db710b1a73 fix(codegen): replay loop binders in synth_with_extras (closes #47)
A `let`-bound `loop` whose body references one of its own loop binders on
the non-recur exit passed `ail check` but failed `ail build` with
`unknown variable`. The fieldtest surfaced this with an owned RawBuf loop
binder, but the trigger is element-type-independent.

Root cause: the Term::Loop arm of synth_with_extras (the type-replay walk
the let-lowering runs via synth_arg_type on every let value) descended
into the loop body WITHOUT adding the loop binders to `extras`, unlike the
Term::Let arm which pushes its binder. A loop binder referenced on the
non-recur exit then resolved to UnknownVar during the type replay.

Fix: clone `extras`, push each loop binder's (name, ty), and thread the
augmented extras into the recursive synth of the body — mirroring the
Term::Let arm exactly. General fix; a plain Int let-bound loop that
references its binder also builds now.

This restores check<->codegen agreement for the natural fill-loop (thread
an owned buffer of runtime length through a loop/recur, one RawBuf.set per
iteration) — the way to populate a buffer whose length is not a fixed set
of literal indices.

Surfaced by the raw-buf fieldtest (finding B2, docs/specs/0058).
RED-first: loop_let_bound_binder_reference_builds.
2026-05-30 17:14:07 +02:00
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 75109f171d fix(check): param-not-in-restricted-set names the allowed set (closes #48)
The ParamNotInRestrictedSet diagnostic named the offending type, the
type-variable and the home type, but not the allowed set {Int, Float,
Bool} that design/models/0007 §4 promises it names. A downstream author
was told what is wrong but not what is right, and the kernel source that
carries the set is not available to a downstream consumer.

The allowed set already travels on the error struct (it flows into the
JSON `details.allowed`); only the human-readable `#[error]` render
dropped it. Append it to the Display string. JSON details unchanged.

Surfaced by the raw-buf fieldtest (finding B3, docs/specs/0058).
RED-first: param_in_reject_message_names_allowed_set pins the message
content before the one-line render fix.
2026-05-30 17:13:40 +02:00
Brummel 13e590cb46 iter raw-buf.6 kernel-stub-retirement (DONE 5/5): retire the stub, raw_buf is the sole base extension (refs #7)
Closes the raw-buf milestone. raw_buf (shipped raw-buf.1-.5; the
owned-drop resolution landed under bug #42/#43) has subsumed every
ratification role kernel_stub held -- Term::New end-to-end, the
param-in reject, kernel-tier auto-import, the monomorphic intrinsic
path, and the type-scoped polymorphic intrinsic mechanism (RawBuf's
four ops). The stub is now redundant; this iteration removes it.

Pure removal (-636/+49 across 22 files, 7 deleted):
- Rust surface: drop `mod kernel_stub` + `STUB_AIL` re-export
  (ailang-kernel), `parse_kernel_stub` + its workspace injection
  (ailang-surface), the `answer` + two `StubT_peek__{Int,Float}`
  INTERCEPTS entries + their three emit fns (ailang-codegen). The
  (intrinsic) markers leave with the deleted source, so the
  marker<->entry bijection holds in lockstep.
- Source + tests: delete crates/ailang-kernel/src/kernel_stub/,
  kernel_stub_module_round_trips, the two stub-consumer e2e tests,
  and mono_scoped_symbol.rs (its scope-qualified-mono mechanism is
  now pinned by RawBuf's ops + the intercepts bijection).
- Fixtures: delete kernel_answer.ail, new_stubt_smoke.ail,
  peek_mono_pin_smoke.ail, and fieldtest kem_3_stub_consumer.ail
  (referenced the deleted StubT; documented a since-fixed bug).
- Pins: re-baseline both workspace-count content-pins 5 -> 4
  (workspace_pin.rs + the e2e.rs twin) and regenerate all five IR
  snapshots (400 stub-IR lines removed; no user IR changed -- the
  stub auto-injected into every build).
- Ledger: design/INDEX.md + design/models/0007 to present-state
  (raw_buf is the live ratifier; raw-buf milestone shipped, series
  pending), plus architecture-comment sweep across workspace.rs,
  mono.rs, check/codegen lib.rs, workspace_kernel.rs.

Scope decisions (orchestrator, pre-plan): the self-contained inline
serde_json check-layer fixtures in ailang-check/src/lib.rs keep their
incidental StubT/kernel_stub sample names (they construct what they
reference; not stub-ratification) -- the one permitted residual.
kem_4 fieldtest kept (uses a user NumBox ADT, comment-only edit).
hash.rs `name: "answer"` left (generic serde doc example).

Plan-gap caught at implement: the planner's verbatim edit list
under-enumerated four honesty sites; one (mono.rs:562) carried a
literal `StubT_peek__Int` -- a hard-gate symbol the verbatim list
missed, which would have failed Task 4's removal gate. Filled
(comment-only, no behaviour). Confirms the planner self-review
filter-completeness risk; the implement gate caught it.

Verification: full workspace suite green (0 failed); hard symbol gate
(STUB_AIL|parse_kernel_stub|emit_answer|emit_stubt_peek|StubT_peek__)
zero matches across crates/ examples/ design/; soft gate residual only
the kept inline fixtures; kernel crate is lib.rs + raw_buf/ only.
Regression: compile_check 24/24 stable (exit 0; uniform downward
check_ms within tol -- stub no longer parsed per compile), cross_lang
25/25, check 34/34 stable (exit 0; an earlier exit-1 on
rc_over_bump was machine-load ratio noise -- denominator bump_s got
faster, rc_s also improved -- confirmed green on re-run, not
baselined).
2026-05-30 16:07:29 +02:00
Brummel 11e4c4624d feat: reserve $ in the Form-A lexer (closes #44)
Enforces the `$`-in-authored-names reservation that fresh_binder
(ailang-core::desugar) silently relied on. `fresh_binder` mints
shadow-rename binders as <base>$<n>; its collision probe could not see
an authored binder literally named <base>$<n> that binds later under
the same (def, name) uniqueness key — the exact collapse class #43
closed. The `$`-for-synthetic convention (`$mp_N`, <hint>$lr_N,
<base>$<n>) was held by discipline only.

This makes it a lexer-enforced invariant: no Form-A identifier token
may contain `$`. A one-line guard in tokenize rejects any token run
containing `$` before int/float/ident classification, raising the new
LexError::ReservedDollar { token, start }. It surfaces through the
existing ParseError::Lex -> W::SurfaceParse -> surface-parse-error
channel with zero new wiring — no new CheckError, no AST walker, no
entry-point threading.

Placement rationale (the load-bearing call): the threat vector is
Form-A source only. The client LLM author is forbidden from emitting
canonical .ail.json directly — it writes Form A exclusively; only the
orchestrator hand-authors JSON in rare exceptions. So every authored
identifier a hallucinating client could produce flows through the
lexer. `$` is a reserved character (like parens) with no legitimate
authored use in any position — unlike `.`/`/`, which DO have
legitimate uses (std_list.map) and therefore live in the check layer
(InvalidDefName) with AST-aware positional logic. No positional split
for `$` means no walker; the lexer is the right boundary. An earlier
draft put the reject in pre_desugar_validation justified by "a client
could build .ail.json directly" — false under the authoring contract,
so the simpler lexer reservation replaced it.

Exemptions by scan order, not special-case: `$` inside string literals
and comments stays legal because both are consumed by earlier branches
of the scan loop, before a run is ever sliced. The six checked-in
example files mentioning loop$lr_0 in comments keep parsing.

Documented non-goals (honesty rule): the .ail.json deserialization
path stays unguarded (the orchestrator's self-responsible channel);
the fresh_binder probe-body simplification (issue Q4) is not bundled —
only its now-false doc-comment is corrected to state the enforced
invariant, scoped to Form-A authored identifiers.

Verification (all run, all green):
- 3 in-source lexer tests: reject on x$1, exemption for $ in string,
  exemption for $ in comment. RED confirmed pre-guard (tokenize("x$1")
  returned Ok([Ident]), expect_err panicked); GREEN after.
- 2 integration tests (reserved_dollar_pin.rs): the reject reaches the
  public parse entry as ParseError::Lex(ReservedDollar); string
  exemption survives at parse level.
- cargo test --workspace: green, 0 failed.
- CLI: check on the comment-$ example (exit 0) and on the #43 shadow
  idiom raw_buf_int.ail (exit 0, buf->buf$1 rename minted post-parse,
  never re-lexed); a fresh $-binder source now rejected with the
  surface-parse-error diagnostic naming the token and byte offset.

Spec: docs/specs/0057-reserved-dollar-in-names.md (grounding-check
PASS). Plan: docs/plans/0112-reserved-dollar-in-names.md.
2026-05-30 15:00:17 +02:00
Brummel b151990028 audit: raw-buf close-fixes — honesty + ledger for the binder-rename (refs #43)
Architect drift review at raw-buf milestone close (after 55d76ae closed
#43) surfaced three items; this commit clears them. All three lockstep-
invariant pairs were confirmed intact and the effective-name keying was
confirmed consistent across the desugar→lift boundary (lift_letrecs reads
the desugared tree's effective names too).

1. [high] Honesty fix. `fresh_binder`'s doc-comment (and 55d76ae's body)
   claimed "authored names cannot contain `$` — the lexer reserves it".
   False: the lexer (ailang-surface) reserves only `.`, not `$`. The
   `$`-for-synthetic convention is not enforced. So collision-freedom
   rests solely on the `used` + in-scope-`scope` probe, which does not
   see an authored `<base>$<n>` that is out of scope at mint time but
   later binds under the same `(def, name)` key — the very collision
   class this fix closes. Latent (no fixture uses a `$` binder), but the
   stated rationale was wrong. Doc-comment now describes the probe
   honestly and names the gap + its two possible closures (enforce the
   reservation, or seed `used` with every authored binder name in the
   def). The enforce-or-retract decision is the next-direction follow-up.

2. [medium] design/models/0003-pipeline.md — "desugar currently only
   flattens nested constructor patterns" no longer matches the code
   (it now also alpha-renames shadowing binders). Corrected to current
   state (honesty-rule).

3. [low] design/contracts/0008-memory-model.md — the three drop gates
   all key on `(def_name, binder_name)` consume_count, silently relying
   on per-fn binder-name injectivity, which the ledger never stated.
   Added that invariant as an explicit precondition of the gates, with
   the desugar guarantee and its ratifying tests.

No code-logic change; doc-comment + ledger only.
2026-05-30 12:50:55 +02:00
Brummel 55d76ae4a1 fix: alpha-rename shadowing binders at desugar — A2b leg (closes #43)
The last open leg of the RawBuf owned-heap drop-leak cluster #43: the
UniquenessTable shadow-name collapse. The side-table keys by
(def_name, binder_name); a fn that shadows a binder name — the shipped
`(let buf (new…) (let buf (set buf…) … (get buf)))` idiom — collapses
every shadow onto one key. The outermost binding records last (on pop)
and overwrites the inner ones, so codegen's scope-close drop gates read
the collapsed consume_count for the innermost binding, misjudge its
ownership, and suppress its drop. The owned slab leaked (live==1).

Fix: desugar now alpha-renames any binder whose authored name shadows
an enclosing binding to a fresh `<name>$<n>`, making the (def, name)
key injective per fn. The rename is on-shadow-only and uniform across
binder kinds (Let, flat-Match pattern-binders, Lam params, Loop
binders); non-shadowing binders keep their authored name, so every
existing fixture's desugared output is byte-identical (evidenced by the
full pre-existing desugar suite passing unchanged). IR-neutral: codegen
names heap by fresh SSA, never by the source binder name.

No consumer of the uniqueness table changes — they all key by name, and
the name is now a per-fn injective identity (acceptance criterion 5).
The fix is entirely internal to ailang-core::desugar; uniqueness.rs gets
only a doc-comment correction (its old text was wrong on two counts:
"last = innermost by pop-order" was backwards, and "every shipping
fixture has unique binder names" was false).

Mechanism (vs. the spec's sketch): the threaded lexical scope became a
`Scope` struct carrying `entries` keyed by each binder's EFFECTIVE
(post-rename) name and `rename` mapping authored→effective. Keying
entries by effective name is load-bearing, not cosmetic: the LetRec
capture-detection reads `free_vars_in_term` of the desugared body
(effective names) and filters by `scope.contains_key` — had entries
stayed keyed by authored name, renaming an enclosing let would have made
a captured shadowed binder invisible to capture detection (UnknownVar in
the lifted fn). `insert_fixed` records identity renames for never-renamed
binders (fn-params, LetRec name/params) so an inner renamable binder that
shadows them is still detected.

Alternatives rejected: (A) an AST id field and (B) a derived
binding-path — both solve the deeper, SEPARATE problem of persistent AST
provenance back to the authored form, which is certain to be needed
eventually but is not required here; conflating the internal naming
collision with provenance is a category error. C′ (this) reuses the
existing fresh-name machinery and touches one pass.

Verification: the three shipped Let-shadow tests
(raw_buf_{int,float,bool}_shadow_rebind_drop_balances_rc_stats) reach
live==0 (were RED at live==1); the flat-pattern differential
(flat_pat_shadow_binder_does_not_leak_more_than_alpha_renamed) reaches
its alpha-renamed control's live count (was 5 vs 3); a new desugar unit
test (shadowing_let_is_alpha_renamed) pins the rename + reference
resolution; full workspace suite green, no fixture output drift. Both
no-change consumers re-verified by hand: match_lower.rs keys by the
emitted (renamed) pattern binder, linearity builds table and lookups
from the same desugared tree.

Spec: docs/specs/0056-unique-binder-names.md.
Plan: docs/plans/0111-unique-binder-names.md.
2026-05-30 12:42:44 +02:00
Brummel 0015f3dad1 spec: unique binder names per fn — A2b leg of RawBuf drop-leak (refs #43)
The last open leg of the #43 owned-heap drop-leak cluster is the
UniquenessTable shadow-name collapse: the side-table keys by
(def_name, binder_name), so a fn that shadows a binder name collapses
every shadow onto one key. The outermost binding (records last, on pop)
overwrites the inner ones; codegen's scope-close drop gates then read
the collapsed consume_count for the innermost binding and suppress its
drop, leaking the owned slab.

Spec 0056 resolves this as a compiler-internal naming collision — NOT
the deeper, separate problem of persistent AST provenance back to the
authored form (certain to be needed eventually, deliberately deferred;
conflating the two is a category error). Fix: alpha-rename shadowing
binders during desugar (reusing the existing fresh-name machinery that
already mints $mp_N / $lr_N), making the (def, name) key injective
again. No consumer of the uniqueness table changes — they all key by
name, and the name becomes a per-fn injective identity. IR-neutral:
codegen names heap by fresh SSA, never by source binder name. The
pre-desugar hashed form is untouched, so module identity and hash-pin
tests are unaffected.

RED fixtures securing the binder-kind class (the user's gating
condition before proceeding to the uniform-across-kinds fix):
- Let-shadow: the three raw_buf_{int,float,bool}_shadow_rebind tests
  (already in tree, committed f7f4c3b) — assert live == 0.
- Flat-pattern-shadow: a differential test plus its two fixtures
  (flat_pat_shadow_leak.ail shadows the outer binder; _control.ail
  alpha-renames it to a distinct name). The shadow must reach the
  control's live count. Differential by design, to isolate the
  shadow-collapse drop from unrelated baseline drop gaps out of
  #43's scope.

Grounding-check PASS; ail-check parse-gate green on every fenced block.
2026-05-30 12:21:27 +02:00
Brummel 0f6108e428 fix: resolve cross-module borrow modes in the uniqueness pass (refs #43)
A2a leg of the owned-RawBuf drop-leak. Prerequisite: regression-free
and independently correct, but does NOT alone close the leak — the
three shadow_rebind RED tests (f7f4c3b) stay RED pending the A2b
shadow-collapse leg, which needs a UniquenessTable contract change and
its own spec.

The leg. The uniqueness pass infer_module runs strictly per module
(called per-Emitter from codegen lib.rs:993 with a single Module). The
module holding `main` registers only its own + builtin signatures in
`globals`; the monomorphised intrinsic signatures (RawBuf_get__Int with
param_modes=[Borrow,Implicit], etc.) live exclusively in the raw_buf
module's separate pass. So a qualified cross-module callee
`raw_buf.RawBuf_get__Int` missed `main`'s globals entirely, returned
vec![], and the walk defaulted every arg to Position::Consume —
mis-counting the borrowed `buf` arg as a consume and inflating the
binder's consume_count, which gates off the scope-close drop. This is a
latent over-conservative default affecting ANY cross-module borrow
callee, not just RawBuf.

The fix (additive, two files). infer_module is kept as a thin wrapper
over a new infer_module_with_cross(m, &cross_module_types) that threads
the workspace-flat module->def->Type table (the same module_def_ail_types
codegen already builds and the A1 emit_call rule already reads). On a
same-module globals miss, callee_arg_modes now falls back to
cross_module_callee_ty: split the callee on the last `.`, resolve
<mod>.<def> positionally against the cross-module table, and read its
Type::Fn.param_modes. Same-module + builtin lookup stays the first
resort; unqualified names and absent entries fall through to the
existing all-consume default unchanged. Modes are matched positionally,
so RawBuf.set's Own first param still counts as a consume (the
new/set-chain binders keep consume_count==1 and are not dropped —
correct, set is in-place, same slab).

Verified: full workspace green except the three intended-RED
shadow_rebind tests; ailang-check and ailang-codegen (incl.
intercepts_bijection_with_intrinsic_markers) green; A1's
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats still green. raw_buf_int.ail still
leaks (live=1) — that is the A2b leg, addressed next.
2026-05-30 11:19:49 +02:00
Brummel f7f4c3b237 test: RED shadow-rebind RawBuf drop-leak on shipped fixtures (refs #43)
raw_buf_{int,float,bool}_shadow_rebind_drop_balances_rc_stats guard
the three shipped milestone fixtures (the LLM-natural shadow-rebind
idiom `(let buf (new...) (let buf (set buf...) ...(get buf)))`) with a
live==0 RC-stats assertion alongside their existing stdout check.

This is a SECOND, distinct leak mechanism (A2), separate from the
anonymous-temp path fixed in 62cd4b4 (A1). The A1 call-site drop does
not cover it: here `get`'s arg is the BOUND `buf` (a Term::Var), not an
anonymous temp, so the A1 rule (which excludes Var args) correctly does
not fire, and the leak persists — allocs=2 frees=1 live=1.

Cause (A2). The uniqueness pass runs post-monomorphisation
(infer_module called from codegen lib.rs:993). It registers the
intrinsic monomorph signatures in `globals` under their bare local
name `RawBuf_get__Int` (uniqueness.rs:128), but callee_arg_modes
(uniqueness.rs:390-410) looks them up by the cross-module-qualified
callee-Var name `raw_buf.RawBuf_get__Int` -> MISS -> vec![] -> every arg
defaults to Position::Consume (walk arm uniqueness.rs:240-242). The
borrow-mode RawBuf param of `get`/`size` is thus mis-counted as a
consume, inflating the final `buf` binder's consume_count from 0 to 1,
which suppresses the Term::Let drop gate at codegen lib.rs:1795. The
param_modes in the registered Type::Fn are correct ([Borrow, Implicit]);
the only defect is the name-key mismatch that hides them from the
lookup.

NOT issue #42's "shadow-name collapse": #42's own evidence shows the
distinct-name (b0/b1/...) variant leaks identically, so the defect is
the borrow-counted-as-consume default, not name-keyed ownership.

RED until callee_arg_modes resolves the qualified intrinsic name to the
registered signature. The A1 test (raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats)
and the four stdout _e2e tests stay green.
2026-05-30 10:58:07 +02:00
Brummel 62cd4b4ee7 fix: drop owned temp passed to a borrow slot at the call site (closes #43)
GREEN side of the owned-RawBuf drop-leak. RED test
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats (47efbdb) now passes:
allocs=2 frees=2 live=0, stdout still "10".

The leak. An owned temporary returned by an Own-ret call and then
passed only to a `borrow`-mode parameter is dead after that call but
was dropped by no one. In the repro, RawBuf.set returns (own RawBuf)
in-place (the intercept emits `ret ptr %b`, the same slab it received),
and that result is passed to RawBuf.get whose RawBuf param is `borrow`,
so get does not consume it and returns an i64. After get the owned
slab is dead. Codegen's two scope-close drop emitters cover only
Term::Let binders (the let gate) and Own fn-params; the general call
lowerer emit_call spliced args without inspecting per-arg modes, so an
owned arg landing in a borrow slot was never dec'd. The leak is
binder-independent — the fully inline form with no `let` at all leaks
byte-identically, which is why the fix lives at the call site, not at
the let gate.

The fix (emit_call, codegen-only, +50 lines, uniqueness.rs untouched).
After a non-tail call, for each argument that is itself an
is_rc_heap_allocated owned temporary (Own-ret call / fresh escaping
ctor / lambda — never a plain Var alias, whose owner is some other
binder dropped elsewhere) AND lands in a Borrow-mode param slot, emit
a drop of that argument's SSA through the same per-type drop symbol the
let gate uses (drop_symbol_for_binder). Per-param modes are read from
the Ail-level Type::Fn.param_modes in module_def_ail_types (which
survives monomorphisation: RawBuf_get__Int -> [Borrow, Implicit]);
note FnSig itself carries only LLVM type strings, not modes.

Why it cannot double-drop or drop a live value:
- set's buffer param is Own, not Borrow, so the rule does not fire for
  the new->set link; the single drop lands on the final temp after get.
  set is in-place (same pointer in and out), so that one drop frees the
  one slab exactly once.
- the rule excludes Var args, so it never races the let/Own-param
  emitters for a named binder.
- the dropped SSA is an input arg, always distinct from the fresh call
  result, and the rule is gated on !tail, so it can never dec a value
  that flows out as the surrounding fn's result.

Known limitation (advisory, no fixture exercises it, stated in a code
comment): a musttail call passing an owned temp into a borrow slot
still leaks — a tail call terminates the block, leaving no post-call
emission point.

Verified: full workspace green; ail e2e 95/95 incl. the 4 raw_buf
fixtures (60/4.0/42/reject) and the now-GREEN drop test; codegen
intercepts_bijection_with_intrinsic_markers green.
2026-05-30 10:49:49 +02:00
Brummel 47efbdb5c0 test: RED owned-RawBuf drop-leak repro (refs #43)
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats + examples/raw_buf_drop_min.ail:
a single owned 1-slot Int RawBuf, written once and read once. Prints
10 correctly but under AILANG_RC_STATS shows allocs=2 frees=1 live=1 —
the slab leaks. Asserts stdout=="10" (green) and live==0 (RED until
the owned-temp drop call is emitted).

Root cause (verified, supersedes #42's disproven diagnosis). The
leaked value is the anonymous owned temporary produced by RawBuf.set
(own-ret, in-place: intercepts.rs emit_rawbuf_set_int does `ret ptr
%b`, same slab as its input), then passed to RawBuf.get whose RawBuf
param is `borrow`. After get borrows and returns an i64 the temp is
dead, but no one drops it: codegen's only two scope-close drop
emitters cover Term::Let binders (lib.rs:1785-1822) and Own fn-params
(lib.rs:1426-1502); the general call lowerer emit_call (lib.rs:2552)
splices args without inspecting per-arg own/borrow modes and emits no
post-call drop for an owned arg landing in a borrow slot.

Binder-independent, contra #42: the fully inline form with no `let`
at all produces byte-identical leaking IR (no Term::Let exists, so the
1785 gate is never reached). The defect is the drop-CALL-site emission
raw-buf.4 deferred to raw-buf.5; uniqueness.rs is not implicated.
2026-05-30 10:41:52 +02:00
Brummel 8ac8756682 iter raw-buf.4 rawbuf-payload-termnew-desugar (DONE, drop-call deferred to .5): RawBuf works, prints 60 (refs #7)
Ships RawBuf end-to-end as a consumer of the raw-buf.3 scope-qualified
intrinsic mechanism, plus the general Term::New construction sugar.
Working subset committed; the drop-CALL ratification (no-leak) is
re-carved to raw-buf.5 (see b49f57d) — the flat drop FUNCTION ships here,
its call-insertion needs a codegen resolution mechanism.

What ships (all green):
- raw_buf kernel-tier submodule (crates/ailang-kernel/src/raw_buf/):
  RawBuf TypeDef (param-in {Int,Float,Bool}, ctor B a) + four
  (intrinsic) ops new/get/set/size. parse_raw_buf + workspace injection
  (kernel-tier auto-imported); workspace count 4 -> 5.
- 12 scope-qualified INTERCEPTS entries RawBuf_{new,get,set,size}__{Int,
  Float,Bool} + emit fns: new allocs an @ailang_rc_alloc slab
  (8-byte i64 size header + n*width element bytes), get/set
  getelementptr+load/store at offset 8 + i*width, size loads the header.
  Mechanical on the raw-buf.3 naming + bijection machinery; bijection
  green (4 markers -> 12 entries).
- Term::New desugar (crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs): (new T <types>
  <values>) -> (app T.new <values>), runs before check so the
  type-scoped callee flows through the raw-buf.3 scope threading to
  RawBuf_new__T; drops the NewArg::Type (element type inferred from
  use). Both codegen Term::New deferral arms removed (replaced with
  unreachable!). Ratified by new_stubt_builds_and_runs.
- Flat intrinsic-storage drop FUNCTION @drop_raw_buf_RawBuf (single
  @ailang_rc_dec on the slab), emitted for any TypeDef whose new op is
  (intrinsic)-bodied — distinguishes RawBuf (intrinsic new) from StubT
  (real-body new -> generic ADT drop).
- E2E: raw_buf_int (-> 60), raw_buf_float (-> 4.0), raw_buf_bool
  (-> 42), raw_buf_param_in_reject (param-not-in-restricted-set).

In-scope additions beyond the literal plan (both sound, ratified):
- qualify_workspace_term now normalises a monomorphic cross-module
  type-scoped callee (StubT.new) to <home>.f; without it
  new_stubt_builds_and_runs cannot build (StubT.new is monomorphic, so
  the raw-buf.3 poly-mono path mints no symbol). Same-module + polymorphic
  callees carved out.
- diagnostic-behaviour: (new T ..) missing-new-op now surfaces
  type-scoped-member-not-found (desugar runs before check, bypassing
  synth's Term::New arm); new-arg-kind-mismatch obsoleted. Two unit
  tests updated to the new behaviour. param-in reject unaffected.

The 5 .ll snapshots gained @drop_raw_buf_RawBuf (+ partial) — injecting
raw_buf emits its drop fn into every program; benign, regenerated to the
final IR. (The plan's "snapshots stay green" assumption was wrong.)

Verification (orchestrator, this session): cargo test --workspace 676
passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored. raw_buf_int_e2e prints 60; bijection,
round-trip, new_stubt, float/bool/reject all green. The raw_buf_no_leak
test is NOT in this commit — it moves to raw-buf.5 with the drop-call
resolution that makes it pass (the slab currently leaks at scope close;
tracked, fixed next iter; milestone not released until close).
2026-05-30 00:49:51 +02:00
Brummel fd37fa6489 iter raw-buf.3 typescoped-intrinsic-mechanism (DONE 2/2): scope-qualified mono symbols + bijection expansion (refs #7)
New language mechanism: a type-scoped polymorphic top-level (intrinsic)
op now mints a scope-qualified mono symbol (StubT_peek__Int, not the
colliding bare peek__Int), and the intrinsic<->intercept bijection
expresses one such polymorphic marker as its N per-param-in-element
entries. Ratified standalone on the stub via a new StubT.peek op; no
RawBuf, no Term::New, no codegen E2E this iteration (RawBuf consumes the
mechanism in raw-buf.4).

Task 1 — scope threading. Added scope: Option<String> to FreeFnCall +
MonoTarget::FreeFn + the synth free_fn_owner tuple. Populated Some(prefix)
ONLY on the type-scoped T.f resolution branch (lib.rs:3538, gated on
type_home.is_some()); None on every local / same-module / implicit-import
branch, so existing bare-resolved symbols stay byte-identical. Consumed
via a scoped_base helper at both mono-symbol mint sites (synthesise +
rewrite, which read the same MonoTarget → automatically in lockstep) and
folded into mono_target_key so a scoped op and a bare op of the same name
never dedup-collide.

Task 2 — ratifier + bijection. Added StubT.peek to the stub source;
extended workspace_intrinsic_markers with a type-scoped-poly arm that
finds the unique same-module TypeDef referenced in the fn signature and
expands over its param-in set, building the T_f__<elem> strings via the
SAME mono_symbol_n on Type::Con elems so collector and mint agree
byte-for-byte; registered StubT_peek__Int/Float entries + emit fns;
extended kernel_stub_module_round_trips to cover peek; added
mono_scoped_symbol integration test (own-param calls, no Term::New, no
codegen — asserts both scoped symbols minted and bare peek__Int absent).

Latent bug fixed inline (regression caught at the full-suite gate, RED via
the existing escape_local_demo E2E). kernel_stub is implicitly imported,
so poly_free_fn_names_for_module unconditionally added peek's bare name to
every consumer; a consumer with its OWN monomorphic peek then had its
local call mistreated as a poly-free-fn site, over-advancing the mono slot
cursor and misaligning a print target. Fix: suppress the bare
implicit-import name when the current module declares a same-name global,
mirroring synth's resolution ladder (same-module global beats
implicit-import). Applied in lockstep to both poly_free_fn name + and
constraint-count maps; dot-qualified / type-scoped spellings stay
unconditional. This was a pre-existing inconsistency between mono's
name-set and synth's resolution that peek (first implicitly-imported poly
free fn colliding with a fixture-local name) exposed.

Plan deviations (all sound): collect_con_heads omits Borrow/Own recursion
(no such Type variant — borrow/own are ParamMode on Type::Fn, verified
ast.rs:752); scope bound via the existing synthesise_mono_fn_for_free_fn
MonoTarget destructure rather than a new param; the mono-pin fixture uses
own params (borrow + peek-returns-a trips consume-while-borrowed; peek is
never instantiated so the mode is immaterial to the scope-symbol
ratification).

Verification (orchestrator, this session): cargo build --workspace clean;
cargo test --workspace 670 passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored (669 baseline +
the one new mono test). Bijection green (1 marker -> 2 entries),
round-trip green, escape_local_demo green. .ll snapshots unchanged (peek
polymorphic -> never instantiated without a call site). Existing eq__*/
compare__*/float_* symbols byte-identical (mono_hash_stability green).
2026-05-29 19:39:35 +02:00
Brummel fbdbe740e6 iter raw-buf.2-kernel-rename (DONE 2/2): ailang-kernel-stub → ailang-kernel family-crate (refs #7)
Pure crate rename, zero behavioural change. ailang-kernel-stub becomes
the ailang-kernel family-crate: a re-export hub (src/lib.rs) plus one
submodule per kernel-tier module (today only kernel_stub:
src/kernel_stub/{mod.rs, source.ail}). raw-buf.3 plugs raw_buf in as a
sibling submodule; this iter only builds the home.

Task 1 (atomic — the rename breaks the build until every site is
threaded):
- git mv crates/ailang-kernel-stub → crates/ailang-kernel.
- Carved the STUB_AIL Form-A body verbatim (byte-identical, verified
  via diff against HEAD's raw string) into src/kernel_stub/source.ail,
  loaded by mod.rs via include_str!. The answer (intrinsic) fn is
  byte-preserved — its INTERCEPTS bijection partner stays pinned.
- lib.rs is now the hub: `pub use kernel_stub::SOURCE as STUB_AIL;`.
  The public symbol STUB_AIL is preserved, so ailang-surface and the
  bijection test bind to it unchanged.
- 8 compile sites threaded across 6 files: Cargo package name,
  workspace member + dep-alias, ailang-surface dep, loader.rs
  use-paths (ailang_kernel_stub → ailang_kernel). Cargo.lock
  auto-regenerated.

Task 2 (doc/ledger honesty, no build impact):
- design/INDEX.md, CLAUDE.md code-layout row + lockstep-pair row,
  design/models/0007 ×2 — crate-path strings updated to the new
  ailang-kernel/src/kernel_stub path.
- Scope note: the spec's raw-buf.2 Components row named only
  design/INDEX.md + the CLAUDE.md code-layout row. plan-recon found two
  more present-tense crate-path refs (CLAUDE.md:312 lockstep row,
  model 0007:8/235). Folded them in per the honesty-rule — a rename
  that leaves stale present-state paths is an incomplete rename.
  Path-only; the retirement narrative stays for raw-buf.4.

The AILang module name kernel_stub (the Form-A string + parse_kernel_stub
fn) is deliberately unchanged — only the crate identifier moved.

Verification (orchestrator, this session): cargo build --workspace
clean; cargo test --workspace 669 passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored
(baseline held exactly — no test added/removed). Carve byte-identity
confirmed by diff; no stale ailang-kernel-stub / ailang_kernel_stub
refs remain in-tree (git grep, excl. history + lockfile). The four
rename-invisible ratifiers (kernel_stub_module_round_trips,
intercepts_bijection_with_intrinsic_markers, .ll snapshots,
workspace_pin) all green via the preserved re-export.
2026-05-29 18:39:36 +02:00
Brummel 6ccc756c0f audit + close: intrinsic-bodies — honest prelude docs + lockstep table + stale-model fix (refs #9)
Milestone close for intrinsic-bodies (.1 mechanism 52ff873 + .2
migration/lock caa3618). Architect drift review over c42034b^..caa3618
plus the regression scripts. Both gates assessed; four drift items
resolved (3 fixed inline here, 1 filed to backlog).

Regression: both scripts exit 0.
  bench/check.py        → 34 metrics, 0 regressed, 2 improved beyond
                          tolerance (bench_hof_pipeline.bump_s -10.76%,
                          bench_list_sum_explicit.bump_s -12.27%), 32 stable.
  bench/compile_check.py → 24 metrics, 0 regressed, 24 stable.
  The milestone is behaviour-preserving; the two throughput improvements
  are noise within the bench's run-to-run band, not a milestone effect.

Drift items (architect):

1. [FIXED] examples/prelude.ail — the 13 migrated defs' doc strings
   still said "Body is placeholder for round-trip stability" and named
   `try_emit_primitive_instance_body` (the pre-raw-buf.1 dispatch fn).
   Post-migration the body IS an honest (intrinsic) marker, not a
   placeholder, and dispatch is `intercepts::lookup`. The docs lied
   about the very artefact the milestone exists to de-lie — an active
   honesty-rule infraction on main. Rewritten to present-tense
   "compiler-supplied (intrinsic) body; codegen emits <IR> via the
   intercept registry" across all 13 (7 Eq/Ord instance methods +
   6 float_* fns).

2. [FIXED] design/models/0007-kernel-extensions.md — claimed the
   `try_emit_primitive_instance_body` hardcoded list is "not yet
   migrated into a plugin registry ... deferred to the Series
   milestone". Stale since raw-buf.1 (the registry shipped) and
   intrinsic-bodies (the (intrinsic) marker + bijection pin). Rewritten
   to the present state: the registry exists, (intrinsic) declares
   membership, the bijection pin locks marker<->entry, and the
   optimisation-only class is named.

3. [FIXED] CLAUDE.md "Lockstep-invariant pairs" — added the third pair:
   INTERCEPTS entries <-> (intrinsic) markers, guarded by
   intercepts_bijection_with_intrinsic_markers, with the
   optimisation-only allowlist carve-out. Same class as the two existing
   tabled pairs; ships silently broken if one side moves without the
   other.

4. [BACKLOG #41, label idea] INTERCEPTS conflates two concepts —
   intrinsic-backed (compiler-supplied body) vs optimisation-of-a-
   real-body (the 5 *__Int icmp family). The .2 bijection pin contains
   it with a hardcoded OPTIMISATION_ONLY allowlist + a stale-allowlist
   guard; a structural split (an Intercept kind field) is the
   forward direction but is its own focused change, out of scope here.

What holds (architect confirmed): data-model contract matches the
shipped Term::Intrinsic (design_schema_drift gates it); no INDEX row
needed (data-model addition, not a new contract); both existing
lockstep pairs untouched (answer lowers via the ordinary qualified-fn
path, no new lower_app arm; no Pattern::Lit reject); 0007-honesty-rule
correctly needed no edit (general rule, never named the dummies).

RATIFY — baseline move: the prelude module hash pin
(crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_module_hash_pin.rs) moves
2ea61ef21ebc1913 -> b1373a2c69e70a3f. Cause: this tidy's 13 doc-string
rewrites (item 1). doc is part of the canonical JSON, so the module
hash shifts; behaviour is unchanged. The 6 mono eq/compare def-hashes
do NOT move (synthesise_mono_fn sets doc: None, so instance-method docs
never reach the synthesised symbol). Full workspace test green
post-rebaseline.

Milestone intrinsic-bodies is closed. It unblocks the raw-buf.2 redo
(the polymorphic kernel-tier fns RawBuf needs now have an honest body
form). raw-buf (#7) remains parked; resuming it is a fresh decision.
2026-05-29 17:56:10 +02:00
Brummel caa3618c3e iter intrinsic-bodies.2-migration-lock (DONE 4/4): prelude → (intrinsic) + bijection pin (refs #9)
Second and final iteration of the intrinsic-bodies milestone. Migrates
the 13 authored prelude dummy bodies to (intrinsic), rebaselines the two
hash pins that move, and locks the registry to the source with a
bijection. Behaviour-preserving: the codegen intercepts emit identical
IR; the prelude placeholder bodies were already dead (intercepted by
name before lower_term, since raw-buf.1).

What landed (4 tasks):

  Task 1 — examples/prelude.ail: 13 authored dummy bodies → (intrinsic).
    7 Eq/Ord instance methods (eq Int/Bool/Str/Unit, compare
    Int/Bool/Str) keep their lambda shell (params/ret = the method's
    local signature, Design X); the inner (body false)/(body true)/
    (body (term-ctor Ordering EQ)) becomes (intrinsic). 6 float_* fns
    ((body false) → (intrinsic) in the fn body slot). The honesty-rule
    infraction the milestone exists to fix is now closed: no prelude
    body lies about what runs.

  Task 2 — hash rebaselines (the prelude bytes changed):
    prelude module hash  af372f28c726f29f → 2ea61ef21ebc1913
    eq__Int       86ed4988438924d3 → cc7b99b63d1e44ae
    eq__Bool      d62d4d8c51f433f8 → fd0412f127986512
    eq__Str       3d32f377c66b03e0 → fa269285754a52da
    compare__Int  6d6c20520766368b → 0a02bd9effc9746c
    compare__Bool 02b64e8fadc913eb → d0dc108dacf4e543
    compare__Str  9645929d53cd3cc9 → d1419595dc52a456
    The 4 show__* mono pins did NOT move (Show bodies are real).

  Task 3 — intercepts.rs: registry_contains_all_legacy_arms (one-
    directional, hardcoded 18-name list) replaced by
    intercepts_bijection_with_intrinsic_markers. The in-source test
    walks prelude + kernel_stub pre-mono for Term::Intrinsic markers,
    recovers each marker's codegen symbol (mono_symbol(method, type) for
    instance methods; the fn name for top-level float_*/answer), and
    asserts a bijection over the intrinsic-backed class: (A) every
    marker resolves to an INTERCEPTS entry, (B) every INTERCEPTS entry
    not on the optimisation-only allowlist has a marker, plus a guard
    that the allowlist names are themselves registered. The allowlist is
    the 5 *__Int icmp-family entries, which intercept the monomorphised
    specialisation of the real-bodied polymorphic lt/le/gt/ge/ne — an
    optimisation, not a compiler-supplied body, so no marker. The pin
    passing independently confirms Task 1 missed no prelude site.

  Task 4 — confirmed no codegen path lowers an intercepted body (already
    true since raw-buf.1: try_emit_primitive_instance_body matches by
    name before f.body is inspected). Refreshed the now-accurate comment
    at lib.rs:1310-1319. design/contracts/0007-honesty-rule.md needed NO
    edit — it is a general present-tense rule and does not name the
    prelude dummies (confirmed by grep), so editing it would have been
    invented work.

Verification:
  cargo test --workspace → 669 passed, 0 failed (post-.1 baseline held;
    one test replaced net-0).
  Behaviour-preservation ratifiers GREEN (the safety net):
    eq_primitives_smoke_compiles_and_runs,
    compare_primitives_smoke_prints_1_2_3_thrice (e2e.rs);
    float_compare_smoke_prints_true_true_false (float_compare_smoke_e2e.rs);
    eq_ord_polymorphic_runs_end_to_end (eq_ord_e2e.rs).
  Bijection pin GREEN. Both hash pins GREEN at the new baselines.
  bench/check.py + compile_check.py → 0 regressed.

Plan-text imprecision (no outcome impact, noted for the record): Task 1
Step 5 wrote `--test e2e` for all four ratifiers, but
float_compare_smoke_prints_true_true_false and
eq_ord_polymorphic_runs_end_to_end live in their own test targets
(float_compare_smoke_e2e.rs, eq_ord_e2e.rs). The verification-filter
self-review checked that the fn names exist, not that they sit in the
named target — a sharper form of the filter-zero discipline. The
implementer ran each in its real target; all four green.

Milestone intrinsic-bodies is now feature-complete (.1 mechanism +
.2 migration+lock). Audit + close follow.
2026-05-29 17:46:50 +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 140a0c0ef7 iter raw-buf.1-intercept-registry (DONE 5/5): try_emit_primitive_instance_body → registry table (refs #7)
Pure refactor — first iter of the raw-buf milestone. The
hardcoded 18-arm match in try_emit_primitive_instance_body
(crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs L2841-3147 pre-iter, ~305
lines) becomes a 6-line shim that consults a single registry
table in the new sibling module crates/ailang-codegen/src/intercepts.rs.

Zero behavioural change. The wrapper name survives, all 14
in-source comment-refs to try_emit_primitive_instance_body stay
valid pointers to the canonical dispatch entry.

What landed (5 tasks):

  Task 1 — module skeleton: Intercept struct, INTERCEPTS static
  table (empty), lookup(name), check_sig(intercept, params, ret).
  mod intercepts; wired into lib.rs at L43.

  Task 2 — populate: 18 free emit fns lifted from the legacy
  match arms; INTERCEPTS populated with one entry per name. Three
  Emitter fields (body, locals, block_terminated) and three helper
  methods (emit_compare_ladder, emit_ordering_arm,
  emit_direct_int_icmp_intercept) bumped to pub(crate) so the
  sibling module can reach them. lower_ctor stayed at its existing
  visibility — not consumed by sibling-module fns.

  Task 3 — rewire dispatch: try_emit_primitive_instance_body body
  becomes `match intercepts::lookup(fn_name) { Some(i) => {
  check_sig(i, params, ret)?; (i.emit)(self)?; Ok(true) } None =>
  Ok(false) }`. The 305-line match collapses to 9 lines.

  Task 4 — fold wants_alwaysinline into the registry: every entry
  in INTERCEPTS carries wants_alwaysinline: bool. The predicate
  intercept_emit_wants_alwaysinline now consults the registry for
  branch 1 (the literal 13-name list the predicate hardcoded). One
  source of truth instead of two — closes the silent-drift class
  recon flagged.

  Task 5 — registry_contains_all_legacy_arms pin test: enumerates
  all 18 legacy names + asserts each resolves to a registered
  entry. A half-finished migration that drops any name becomes a
  hard test fail.

Two judgement calls the implementer made (both behaviour-
preserving, both worth knowing):

  (1) eq__Unit param shape: the plan named expected_params: &[]
  per the recon's "params ignored" reading. Reality: the call
  site delivers ["i8","i8"] (Unit lowers to i8 per codegen //!
  header). The registry entry uses ["i8","i8"]; the emit fn
  discards the operand SSAs and returns `ret i1 1` — semantically
  equivalent to the legacy arm that checked only ret_ty and
  ignored params. An inline rustdoc on the entry names the
  rationale.

  (2) intercept_emit_wants_alwaysinline has TWO branches, not one
  as the plan inferred. Branch 1 = the literal 13-name list (which
  the iter's drift-closure intent covers). Branch 2 = a stem-prefix
  carve-out matching {ne|lt|le|gt|ge}__* that covers polymorphic-
  body monomorphizations (lt__Bool, ne__Str, ne__MyADT, …) which
  are NOT registry entries and never were. A literal "replace with
  one-line registry lookup" would silently drop alwaysinline on
  those names, breaking the bench-perf parity established in iter
  operator-routing-eq-ord.1. Branch 2 stays as it was, with a
  fresh comment naming what the registry covers vs. what branch 2
  covers.

  Follow-up consideration (not in this iter): extend the Intercept
  variant to a predicate-only entry shape so branch 2 can fold
  into the registry as well, OR accept the carve-out as the final
  shape. Either is reasonable. Filed as a backlog idea (see Gitea
  issue created post-commit if labelled).

Verification:

  cargo test --workspace      → 667 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored
                                (baseline was 666 + 2 ignored;
                                +1 from registry_contains_all_legacy_arms)

  Four E2E ratifiers GREEN (named in spec § Testing strategy
  raw-buf.1):
    - eq_primitives_smoke_compiles_and_runs (crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs)
    - compare_primitives_smoke_prints_1_2_3_thrice (crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs)
    - float_compare_smoke_prints_true_true_false
    - eq_ord_polymorphic_runs_end_to_end

  Alwaysinline pins GREEN (regression net for branch-2 carve-out):
    - crates/ailang-codegen/tests/eq_primitives_pin.rs
    - crates/ail/tests/prelude_eq_alwaysinline_ir_pin.rs

  New pin GREEN:
    - intercepts::tests::registry_contains_all_legacy_arms

Diff size: lib.rs −318 / +26 (net −292); intercepts.rs +488 (new
file). Net repository LOC delta: +196. The size reduction in
lib.rs is the wrong proxy — the value is the consolidation: one
table, one drift-closed predicate, one pin test enumerating the
migration surface.

The raw-buf.2 iter will rename crates/ailang-kernel-stub/ to
crates/ailang-kernel/ and reshape it as the family-crate that
hosts raw_buf alongside kernel_stub. The registry shipped here
is the substrate raw-buf.3 will plug RawBuf's 12 codegen
intercepts into.
2026-05-29 11:06:55 +02:00
Brummel a163c8c34a GREEN: pre-pass/resolver asymmetry — same-module bare + kernel-tier qualifier acceptance (closes F1, F3)
Two minimal edits in ailang-check that bring the resolver's
acceptance set into line with what prep.1's workspace pre-pass
(`prepare_workspace_for_check`) actually produces. The pre-pass
itself is unchanged — its qualification rules are correct per
spec § "Realisation mechanism — workspace pre-pass". RED tests
landed in 4d39fdc; both turn GREEN, both fieldtest fixtures
that surfaced the bugs now `ail check` clean.

F1 — same-module type-scoped call (kem_2b_min_repro.ail).
The dot-qualified `Term::Var` arm in `synth_term`
(`crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs` ~line 3425) was
unconditionally rewriting the resolved fn signature via
`qualify_local_types`, so a call like `(app Counter.value c)`
from inside Counter's home module produced a return type
`<this>.Counter` — but the matching `Term::Ctor` arm
(~line 3644) and the pre-pass itself both leave own-module
type-names bare. The two halves of the resolver disagreed.

Fix: branch on `target_module == env.current_module` — when
true, skip the qualification (the raw type is already in the
form the rest of the resolver speaks); when false, qualify
as before. `owner_types` lookup moved inside the else-branch
since it's only consulted when qualification runs. A short
comment names the pre-pass and the sibling Term::Ctor arm so
a future reader sees the three-way symmetry.

F3 — kernel-tier qualifier acceptance (kem_3_stub_consumer.ail).
The env-builder paths `build_check_env` (~line 1653) and
`check_in_workspace` (~line 1807) force-injected only
`"prelude"` into `env.imports` / `env.module_imports`. The
loader meanwhile derives the implicit-imports list from
`modules.values().filter(|m| m.kernel)` (since prep.3) — so
`kernel_stub` flows into runtime resolution but not into
the checker's qualifier-validity check (~line 1968). Bare
`StubT` got qualified by the pre-pass to `kernel_stub.StubT`,
then bounced off the validity check as "unknown module
prefix".

Fix at both sites: keep the unconditional `"prelude"` literal
injection AND additively insert every workspace module with
`kernel: true` into the per-module import map (skip
self-injection). Idempotent for production (where prelude
also carries `kernel: true`) and preserves the
`bare_name_resolves_through_implicit_import_to_free_fn`
unit-test contract — that test deliberately constructs a
prelude module with `kernel: false` to pin the legacy
"prelude is always implicit" guarantee per se, independent
of the kernel flag. Mirrors the loader's kernel-flag filter,
making the env-builder and the loader speak the same set.

Sibling pin `crates/ailang-check/tests/env_construction_pin.rs`
(the frozen-reproduction copy of `build_check_env`'s
`module_imports` loop) updated in lockstep so it remains a
meaningful drift detector after the env-builder change. The
pin is intentionally designed to track legitimate behavioural
changes.

Verification:
  - tests::type_scoped_call_in_same_module_resolves      GREEN
  - tests::kernel_tier_module_qualifier_resolves_…       GREEN
  - examples/fieldtest/kem_2b_min_repro.ail              ail check ok
  - examples/fieldtest/kem_3_stub_consumer.ail           ail check ok
  - cargo test --workspace                               666 / 0
  (664 prior baseline + 2 RED→GREEN this iter)

Implementer notes: one re-loop on the F3 site after the first
edit replaced the legacy "prelude" literal injection wholesale
with the kernel-flag filter — that broke the unit-test contract
above. Restored the literal AND added the filter on top per the
"don't adapt tests to bugs" memory. No spec-review or
quality-review loops.

prep.1's pre-pass design (spec § "Realisation mechanism") was
correct as written — the symmetry between owner-side
`qualify_local_types` and consumer-side `prepare_workspace_for_check`
holds. What was missing was uniform resolver-side acceptance of
the qualifiers the pre-pass produces. With these two edits, the
following equivalences hold throughout the checker:

  bare T  ≡  <this-module>.T            (F1, same-module rule)
  bare T  ≡  <kernel-module>.T          (F3, kernel-tier rule)

via the loader-driven implicit-imports list that now drives
both the checker's import map and the type-validity check.
2026-05-28 19:36:36 +02:00
Brummel 4d39fdc9c0 RED: same-module type-scoped call + kernel-tier qualifier — pre-pass/resolver asymmetry (refs F1, F3)
Two failing in-source tests added to ailang-check, both pinning
the pre-pass / resolver mismatch surfaced by the fieldtest:

  tests::type_scoped_call_in_same_module_resolves
      F1: `(app Counter.value c)` from inside Counter's own home
      module must check clean. Currently fails with
      `[type-mismatch] main: type mismatch: expected
      <this>.Counter, got Counter` because the dot-qualified
      Term::Var arm at lib.rs ~3430 unconditionally calls
      qualify_local_types on the resolved fn signature even when
      target_module == env.current_module, while the matching
      local Term::Ctor branch (~3644) returns bare `Counter`.
      The two halves of the resolver disagree on whether
      `<this>.T` and bare `T` denote the same type.

  tests::kernel_tier_module_qualifier_resolves_without_explicit_import
      F3: `(con StubT (con Int))` in a consumer type signature
      must resolve without `(import kernel_stub)`. Currently
      fails with `[unknown-module] … unknown module prefix
      `kernel_stub` …` because env.imports / env.module_imports
      (built at ~1797 and ~1667) force-inject only `prelude` from
      the kernel-tier set; the pre-pass freely produces
      `kernel_stub.StubT` qualifiers that then bounce off the
      qualifier-validity check at ~1968.

Shared root: in both bugs the workspace pre-pass synthesises a
qualifier (`<this>.T` for F1, `<kernel_mod>.T` for F3) that some
downstream consumer of the resolver does not accept. The fix
surface is the resolver-acceptance side in both cases — the
pre-pass's qualification rules are correct per the spec's
§ "Realisation mechanism — workspace pre-pass". Implementation
will be two minimal edits to distinct files-and-functions
(no sweeping refactor).

GREEN side handed to implement mini-mode in the next dispatch.
2026-05-28 19:29:02 +02:00
Brummel 171a986f82 fix(stub): add missing (fn new ...) to STUB_AIL — restore prep.3 spec/ship coherence (refs F4)
Fieldtest F4 surfaced that the shipped STUB_AIL had only the
TypeDef + ctor; the spec's prep.3 § "Worked author example" wired
a `(fn new ...)` def into the stub and immediately exercised it
via the worked consumer's `(new StubT 42)`. The implementer
dropped the def during the Task 6 sweep (spec-review let it
through). Without the def, the stub's `Term::New` end-to-end
ratification story is broken — F4 demonstrated this with a
`new-type-not-constructible` diagnostic on a verbatim
worked-consumer paste.

Re-added the def per the spec's design:

  (fn new
    (doc "Construct StubT<Int> from an Int. Exercises Term::New end-to-end.")
    (type (fn-type (params (con Int)) (ret (con StubT (con Int)))))
    (params x)
    (body (term-ctor StubT Stub x)))

IR snapshots refreshed because every binary now carries the `new`
function's IR (in addition to the `drop_kernel_stub_StubT` from
the original prep.3 close). All 664 workspace tests green.

This restores coherence between the spec, the design model, and
the shipped stub. The `Term::New` invocation `(new StubT 42)` is
still codegen-deferred (per spec § Architecture, raw-buf
milestone); but at least `ail check` now passes on the spec's
worked-consumer paste.

A related and more substantive bug (F3 — kernel-tier auto-import
not registering the module as a qualifier prefix, making
`kernel_stub.StubT` consumer-unreachable) is handled separately
via the debug skill.
2026-05-28 19:21:57 +02:00
Brummel 9d2e752f07 iter kernel-extension-mechanics.tidy: architect drift items — present-state + plugin-migration aftermath
Audit Step 3 fix path. Architect drift review at milestone close
surfaced 8 items (3 high, 4 medium, 1 low). Resolved 7 inline as
mechanical text rewrites + 2 source-rustdoc cleanups; the 1 low
(cycle-avoidance pattern documentation in design ledger) is
deferred — architect flagged it "Note, do not push" because the
pattern is implementation mechanism, not language semantics,
and is already documented in the load-bearing place
(`crates/ailang-kernel-stub/src/lib.rs //!`).

CLAUDE.md (2 sites):
  - Lead paragraph: "this file carries [...] in-tree skill system"
    → reframe to "this file carries [...] orchestrator discipline
    (the skill system itself lives in the ~/dev/skills/ plugin
    and is wired in via .claude/dev-cycle-profile.yml)".
  - Code-layout table: new row for `crates/ailang-kernel-stub/`
    documenting the zero-dep leaf design, the parse-hop location
    in `ailang-surface`, and the planned retirement at raw-buf
    landing.

design/INDEX.md (2 sites):
  - Project-ecosystem "Skills" bullet: in-tree `skills/` path +
    `skills/README.md` reference → `~/dev/skills/` plugin +
    in-tree per-project profile. Also added `docwriter` and
    `boss` to the enumerated skill list (8 in total) for
    completeness.
  - kernel-extensions row 111: added stub-retirement plan to the
    annotation so the spine names the future state, not just the
    in-tree reader of `lib.rs //!`.

design/models/0007-kernel-extensions.md (3 sites):
  - § "Migration policy" subsection: 4 bullets transitioned
    forward → present-state per honesty-rule. References to
    `loader.rs:98-108` / `workspace.rs:308-311, 467, 2655` as
    if hardcoded paths still existed → described as past state
    that has been replaced by the generic flag-filter. Codegen-
    intercept-migration bullet kept forward-looking because the
    `try_emit_primitive_instance_body` migration is *actually*
    still pending (deferred to Series milestone per spec
    § Out-of-scope).
  - § "Feature-acceptance argument": "the bounded push-only
    mutation surface — gated by the `Series` effect" — internal
    contradiction with three earlier statements that "Series
    carries no separate algebraic effect; mutation is mode-
    tracked, not effect-tracked". Re-framed to "gated by
    uniqueness mode-tracking on the owned `Series` value (not by
    an algebraic effect; see §"Coexistence" below)".
  - § "Coexistence" "Algebraic effects" bullet: "Reused
    unchanged. The `Series` effect is a new name" — same
    contradiction. Re-framed to "Not extended by Series.
    Mutation discipline lives in the uniqueness/mode system; the
    algebraic-effects set is unchanged".

Source rustdoc (2 sites):
  - `crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs:117` comment
    "skills/**/SKILL.md" → "any in-tree project-discipline
    document (e.g. CLAUDE.md)" — the allowlist comment now
    matches what the test actually does (no allowlist enforced
    in code; any existing path passes).
  - `crates/ailang-core/tests/design_schema_drift.rs:419`
    rustdoc: "RED until `skills/implement` mini-mode adds it"
    → "RED until the `implement` skill (mini-mode dispatch)
    adds it" — same skill, post-plugin-migration framing.

Architect items not addressed in this tidy:
  - 0007 § "The plugin contract (consolidated)" forward-intent
    reference to `try_emit_primitive_instance_body` migration —
    architect flagged as edge-case-acceptable per the explicit
    STATUS carve-out (the migration IS still pending). No
    change.
  - Cycle-avoidance pattern documentation (low): deferred per
    architect recommendation.

Tests green (664/0); workspace_pin module-count assertion picked
up from a844de3 carries through.
2026-05-28 19:04:43 +02:00
Brummel a844de3f7a test: workspace_pin module count 3→4 (kernel_stub auto-injection)
Follow-up to 9339279 — the implement-orchestrator caught the
e2e.rs module-count assertion but missed this in-source pin in
workspace_pin.rs. The loader now injects two built-in kernel-
tier modules (`prelude` and `kernel_stub`); the user's ws_main
+ ws_lib bring the total to 4.

Also asserts both built-ins are present by name so a future
retirement of `kernel_stub` (planned for when the raw-buf
milestone lands a real second kernel-tier consumer) trips this
pin in lockstep, not as a silent off-by-one.
2026-05-28 18:45:38 +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 b586999e81 iter prep.1-type-scoped-namespacing (DONE 5/5): TypeDef-first resolution + workspace pre-pass — closes #31
First iteration of the kernel-extension-mechanics milestone. Ships
the type-scoped `<TypeName>.<member>` resolution path as the
canonical form for type-associated operations, narrows the
`BareCrossModuleTypeRef` / `BadCrossModuleTypeRef` diagnostics from
"bare = strictly local" to "bare = in-scope by any path", migrates
12 std-library example fixtures, and introduces a workspace-wide
normalisation pre-pass `prepare_workspace_for_check` shared between
`check_workspace` and `monomorphise_workspace`.

Architectural discovery during implementation: the plan covered the
`Term::Var` dot-qualified resolver layer plus the workspace
validator's bare-name acceptance, but the migration of bare-form
fixtures exposed five sites where bare vs. qualified type-names
needed symmetric treatment — `Term::Ctor` resolution, `Type::Con`
well-formedness, mono's poly-free-fn name/constraint-count
enumeration, codegen's `lookup_ctor_by_type` bare-name path, and
the upstream desugar-then-qualify composition. Rather than
scattering TypeDef-first ladders across each site, the implementer
centralised the work into one pre-pass that walks every consumer
module's `Type::Con.name` and `Term::Ctor.type_name`, rewriting
bare cross-module references to their qualified `<home>.<Type>`
form. This is symmetric to the pre-existing `qualify_local_types`
(owner-side); the new pre-pass is the consumer-side mirror.
Downstream passes see qualified Types regardless of authoring form.
The TypeDef-first ladder still lives in `synth`'s `Term::Var` arm
because `<TypeName>.<member>` is term-position-only — `Maybe.from_maybe`
is a Var, not a Type expression, and the pre-pass does not rewrite
Var names.

Alternatives considered:

(a) Add TypeDef-first ladder at every resolution site separately
    (the plan's implicit assumption). Rejected: O(N) extension
    sites, each carrying the same workspace-walking logic; the
    pre-pass version is O(1) — one pass, every downstream consumer
    benefits.
(b) BLOCKED + spec re-brainstorm. Rejected: the architecture
    extension is consistent with prep.1's thesis (bare type-name
    resolves to the workspace-wide TypeDef) and forward-compatible
    with prep.2 (Term::New.type_name falls under the same rewrite)
    and prep.3 (kernel-tier TypeDefs enter the workspace map
    automatically). No design regression to bounce back over.

Spec updated to document the realisation mechanism honestly: the
"Realisation mechanism — workspace pre-pass" subsection clarifies
that the resolver-level semantics described in "Implementation
shape" are the user-facing contract, and the actual code path is
the pre-pass.

Verification:

- `cargo test --workspace`: ALL GREEN. 87 e2e + every crate's unit
  + integration tests pass with no regressions.
- Three NEW in-source tests pin Task 1's resolver paths:
  `type_scoped_member_resolves`, `type_scoped_member_not_found`,
  `type_scoped_receiver_not_a_type`.
- One NEW workspace test pins the narrowed validator:
  `ct1_validator_accepts_bare_with_explicit_import`.
- One renamed-and-flipped existing test:
  `ct1_validator_rejects_bare_xmod_with_import_candidate` →
  `ct1_validator_accepts_bare_xmod_with_import_candidate` (the
  bare-with-import path is now ACCEPTED).
- One NEW companion test for the workspace-wide ctor lookup:
  `ct2_term_ctor_bare_cross_module_via_workspace_resolves`.
- Two pre-existing tests' assertions updated for the new error
  wording: `ct1_check_cli::check_human_mode_emits_actionable_message_to_stderr`
  and `crates/ailang-check/tests/workspace.rs::unknown_module_prefix_is_reported`.
- 12 migrated `.ail` fixtures verified via the existing e2e
  suite (each fixture is the test runner's target for an existing
  `build_and_run` assertion).
- Negative fixture `ct_2_bare_cross_module.ail` semantically
  preserved: dropped its `(import std_maybe)` so bare `Maybe` is
  out-of-scope under the narrowed rule and still fires
  `BareCrossModuleTypeRef`.

Concerns:

- The pre-pass introduces a new architectural layer (consumer-side
  qualification) that the spec did not originally anticipate. Spec
  amendment in this commit documents the layer. Future iterations
  reference `prepare_workspace_for_check` as established
  infrastructure.
- `examples/test_ct1_bare_xmod_rejected.ail.json` switched its
  offending name from bare `Ordering` (which under the prep.1
  semantics may now resolve via implicit prelude) to a still-
  unresolvable `Mystery_Type`. The CLI test's intent (assert that
  a human-mode `ail check` exits non-zero on a still-RED case) is
  preserved.

Milestone status: kernel-extension-mechanics (Gitea #6) advances
1/3 iters. Next: prep.2 (`Term::New` construct) issue #32.
2026-05-28 14:43:03 +02:00
Brummel 832375f2ac convention: counter-prefix file naming across docs/specs/, docs/plans/, design/contracts/, design/models/
All 176 files in the four accumulating directories now use a
zero-padded 4-digit counter prefix that reflects creation order
(`NNNN-slug.md`). The counter is assigned per directory in strict
git-log creation order; ties broken alphabetically by original name.
The old `YYYY-MM-DD-` prefix on docs/specs/ and docs/plans/ files is
dropped — the date is recoverable from git log and the counter
carries the ordering.

A file's counter is stable for the life of the file: never reassigned,
never reused, never compacted. Deleted files retire their counter;
subsequent files do not fill the gap. This is the property that lets
cross-references stay literal — refs use the full filename including
the counter (`design/contracts/0007-honesty-rule.md`) so they grep
cleanly and resolve directly without a glob step.

313 cross-references updated across .md/.rs/.toml/.c/.json files
(test pins, include_str! paths, design-INDEX entries, baseline notes,
runtime C comments, inter-contract markdown links incl. bare basename
and `../models/foo.md` forms).

CLAUDE.md gets a new "File-naming convention" section spelling out
the rule and rationale. skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md and
skills/planner/SKILL.md updated so new spec/plan creation produces
counter-prefixed names from the start.

The full test suite (cargo test --workspace) passes.
2026-05-28 13:31:31 +02:00
Brummel 4fc65ccb99 iter schema-camelcase-fix.1 (DONE 4/4): paramTypes/retType → param-types/ret-type — closes #30
`Term::Lam`'s two camelCase JSON tags become kebab-case, matching
the convention every other compound-key tag in the AST schema
already follows. After this iter the canonical JSON has zero
camelCase outliers.

## Schema swap (atomic, Task 2)

- `crates/ailang-core/src/ast.rs:492,494` — two
  `#[serde(rename)]` strings: `"paramTypes" → "param-types"`,
  `"retType" → "ret-type"`. Rust field names unchanged.
- `crates/ailang-core/src/workspace.rs:1925-1926` — in-source
  JSON literal in the `ct1_validator_walks_lam_embedded_types`
  test.
- `design/contracts/data-model.md:142-147` — fenced JSON block
  in the canonical data-model contract. Honesty-Rule touch-point:
  the contract document must describe the actual present-state
  schema.
- `examples/test_loop_binder_captured_by_lambda.ail.json` and
  `experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/examples/fn_with_lambda.ail.json`
  — the two `.ail.json` fixtures whose canonical-JSON embeds
  the renamed tags.

The five files moved together within one task because `Term::Lam`
has no `#[serde(default)]` on `param_tys` / `ret_ty` — a
renamed-away key is a hard deserialise error. Splitting the swap
would have left the workspace untestable mid-step.

## RED → GREEN pin (Tasks 1, 2)

`crates/ailang-core/tests/design_schema_drift.rs` gains
`lam_serialises_with_kebab_keys`: pins that `serde_json::to_value(&Term::Lam{...})`
emits `"param-types"` / `"ret-type"` AND does not emit the old
camelCase keys. Companion: the existing
`design_md_anchors_every_term_variant` test now also asserts the
kebab anchors appear inside `data-model.md`'s `lam` fenced block.
Both confirmed RED on entry, GREEN after Task 2.

## Rustdoc honesty pass (Task 3)

Three pure-prose edits keep production rustdoc consistent with
the new schema vocabulary: `crates/ailang-core/src/ast.rs:8` (the
module-level rename enumeration), `crates/ailang-surface/src/parse.rs:81`
(prose mention of `lam`'s carry), `crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs:1707`
(InstanceMethod routing helper rustdoc). No compile or test
consequence — Honesty-Rule maintenance.

## Plan-pseudo-vs-reality finding: under-audited hash blast radius

The brainstorm spec audited `crates/ailang-core/tests/hash_pin.rs`
exhaustively (5 pinned modules, zero `(lam ...)` occurrences,
"no hash refresh required"). It missed
`crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_module_hash_pin.rs` — a
separate hash-pin file in a different crate that pins `prelude.ail`,
which contains 11 `(lam ...)` forms. The prelude module hash
drifted (`6d0577ff0d4e50ac` → `562a03fc57e7e017`); the implementer
refreshed it with a Honesty-Rule provenance comment matching the
precedent set in commit `26fb345`. Form-A is unchanged — only the
canonical-JSON byte stream differs, which is exactly what the
rename targets. The spec-side learning is: schema-rename
brainstorms must walk *every* test crate for hash-pin files, not
just the home crate of the AST.

## Why this shape, and not the alternatives

- *`params-ty` / `ret-ty` (Rust-field-name vibe)* — rejected. The
  AST JSON schema follows its own kebab/single-word convention,
  not Rust field names. The other multi-word tag (`reuse-as`) is
  kebab; abbreviating `params-ty` mixes singular+plural and has
  no precedent.
- *Inline typed params as a sub-tag* (e.g. `params: [{name, type}, ...]`)
  — rejected. Stronger semantic locality, but it changes schema
  topology rather than tag spelling. Out of scope for a camelCase
  correction; would have re-pinned far more than this milestone.
- *Bundle with #27 (arith-rename)* — rejected. #27 carries four
  open brainstorm questions (mod vs rem, neg vs sub 0, Num class,
  deprecation window) and is structurally a separate milestone.
  Each gets one re-pin wave with its own rationale; no churn
  saving from bundling.

## Honest call on the feature-acceptance gate

Clause 1 (LLM author naturally uses the new form) is the weakest
of the three. Direct empirical evidence is absent — the 2026-05-21
naming-A/B run measured a different axis. The argument is
indirect: a future LLM author generalises from the rest of the
schema ("compound keys are kebab"), and the two camelCase
outliers are precisely the sites where that generalisation
diverged from reality. Clause 2 (redundancy reduction) and
Clause 3 (no semantic surface touched) are direct.

## Forbidden touches verified untouched

`docs/plans/*.md` historic plans (which embed old tag names in
example JSON), `experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/spec.md`,
`experiments/.../rendered/*.md`, and `experiments/.../runs/**` —
all left as frozen historical artefacts per Honesty-Rule
analogue (describe state at time of writing, not present state).
Verified via `git diff --name-only HEAD` (Task 4 Step 4).

## Verification

- `cargo test --workspace`: all test groups OK, 0 failed,
  2 ignored (pre-existing).
- `cargo test -p ailang-surface --test round_trip`: GREEN
  (Form-A unchanged invariant).
- New schema-shape pin and the extended data-model anchor walk:
  GREEN after Task 2.
- Negative grep across `crates/`, `examples/`, `design/`,
  `runtime/`: the only remaining `paramTypes` / `retType`
  occurrences in checked-in code are the load-bearing
  negative-assertion strings inside the new pin (intentional —
  they are what makes the pin RED-able on regression).
- Stats: `bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-21-iter-schema-camelcase-fix.json`
  — 4/4 tasks DONE, no re-loops, no review-loops.

closes #30
2026-05-21 12:57:06 +02:00