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Brummel 557bf57cdb iter 22-tidy.4: mono::primitive_surface_name delegates to ailang-core 2026-05-10 04:18:46 +02:00
Brummel 5fd95e4e9f iter 22-tidy.4: route 4 matches! sites through is_primitive_name 2026-05-10 04:15:47 +02:00
Brummel c3fd1c08a3 iter env-unify.audit: tidy stale Env docs, pin-test docstring; queue types/ctor_index shape 2026-05-10 02:36:27 +02:00
Brummel d7e333fdf7 iter env-unify.2: drop redundant overlay comments 2026-05-10 02:28:54 +02:00
Brummel 2ab9d77113 iter env-unify.2: check_in_workspace consumes build_check_env 2026-05-10 02:26:24 +02:00
Brummel 92b94afa2a iter env-unify.1: rustdoc fixup (re-anchor check_in_workspace doc, drop transient task tag) 2026-05-10 02:19:24 +02:00
Brummel d6870d7a62 iter env-unify.1: extract build_check_env, mono uses it 2026-05-10 02:16:21 +02:00
Brummel a9c685ded8 fix: mono pass seeds env.imports for qualified cross-module refs in class workspace 2026-05-10 01:23:07 +02:00
Brummel 13b36ccb0f fix: mono pass seeds env.globals for recursive top-level fn in class workspace 2026-05-10 01:10:31 +02:00
Brummel 5c5180fc48 fix: mono pass seeds env.types and env.ctor_index for user ADTs 2026-05-09 22:43:54 +02:00
Brummel b59820b737 iter 22b.3.7: synthetic fixture — class+instance compiles, runs, prints 5 2026-05-09 21:28:41 +02:00
Brummel 7f260b82ad iter 22b.3.6: fix — quality-review (shadow-aware walker, cross-mod test, Option-typed targets, const helper) 2026-05-09 21:21:33 +02:00
Brummel d1b590ceab iter 22b.3.6: call-site rewrite — same/cross module qualified names 2026-05-09 21:07:58 +02:00
Brummel e8018d48b6 iter 22b.3.5: fix — quality-review (chained-call test, hoist class_index, drop noise comments) 2026-05-09 20:59:43 +02:00
Brummel dd87b36e00 iter 22b.3.5: workspace fixpoint loop — dedup + synth-append 2026-05-09 20:52:07 +02:00
Brummel d2954010ea iter 22b.3.4: fix — quality-review (zero-arg test, drop what-comments + param-name pin) 2026-05-09 20:45:56 +02:00
Brummel d6084a71fb iter 22b.3.4: synthesise_mono_fn — instance body + class default fallback 2026-05-09 20:41:45 +02:00
Brummel 9f86c072dc iter 22b.3.3: fix — revert dead pub(crate), reuse build_module_types, drop defensive unwrap
Quality-review follow-up to 89311ee:

- Revert `substitute_rigids` to private. Task 3 does not call it; the
  visibility bump was forward-looking for Task 4 (synthesise_mono_fn).
  Task 4 will re-bump it in the same diff that uses it.
- Promote `build_module_types` to pub(crate); drop the inline
  reimplementation in `mono::build_workspace_env`. Removes drift risk
  between the two paths.
- Replace defensive `unwrap_or_default()` on `build_module_globals`
  with `expect(...)` naming the pre-condition. Silent default violated
  CLAUDE.md "no defensive validation in internal code paths".
- Add a one-line drift-risk reminder at the top of `build_workspace_env`
  flagging that it and `check_in_workspace` both populate `Env`.

Build clean; all 5 typeclass_22b3 tests green; no workspace regressions.
2026-05-09 20:36:52 +02:00
Brummel 89311ee20b iter 22b.3.3: collect_mono_targets — synth-replay residual gathering 2026-05-09 20:31:12 +02:00
Brummel c77fd1b85e iter 22b.3.2: fix — drop speculative Float (plan-text overreach)
Float is referenced nowhere else in the codebase; the plan-text
listed it aspirationally. Restored parity with the four other
primitive enumerations across the crate. When Float lands as a
real type (post-22b.4 Prelude work, if at all), the arm gets
re-added in the same iter that introduces Type::float().

Deferred (not part of this fix):
- Shared-constant extraction across the four primitive enumeration
  sites (linearity.rs:143, lib.rs:1232/2214, mono.rs) — workspace-
  level cleanup belonging to the milestone-22 audit phase.
- pub mod mono vs sibling pub use lift::lift_letrecs style — plan
  prescribed pub mod for 22b.3 because Tasks 3-7 add multiple pub
  items reached by integration tests; per-item pub use would
  proliferate.
2026-05-09 20:25:51 +02:00
Brummel 028227587b iter 22b.3.2: mono_symbol — primitive surface forms + hash for compound 2026-05-09 20:21:24 +02:00
Brummel 108115f7dd iter 22b.3.1: fix — quality-review (doc reframe + class-present test) 2026-05-09 20:18:20 +02:00
Brummel 209074ee5d iter 22b.3.1: mono pass skeleton — identity for class-free workspaces 2026-05-09 20:12:36 +02:00
Brummel 47bec74b26 iter 22b.2.10: fix — positive green-path test, drop dead let _ = ws
Adds the missing positive counterpart to the no-instance test:
`show 42` with `instance Show Int` PRESENT must typecheck green.
This guards against registry-keying or threading bugs that would
otherwise sneak past the negative-only test (an empty registry at
typecheck time, or a key shape mismatch, would silently fire
no-instance even when the instance exists).

Also drops the dead `let _ = ws;` and its stale comment in
`check_in_workspace` — the line above already consumes
`ws.registry`, so the explicit drop is redundant. The remaining
comment is folded into the registry-threading comment so the
"registry is the only thing threaded" rationale is preserved.
2026-05-09 19:13:32 +02:00
Brummel 3600e82ec2 iter 22b.2.10: no-instance per-fn diagnostic 2026-05-09 19:07:46 +02:00
Brummel b741a8ba05 iter 22b.2.9: fix — superclass-walk tests, simplify class_superclasses map shape 2026-05-09 18:59:15 +02:00
Brummel 7cff741632 iter 22b.2.9: missing-constraint per-fn diagnostic 2026-05-09 18:51:39 +02:00
Brummel afa06a3f3d iter 22b.2.8: fix — fold double-match, IndexMap parity, broader contract test 2026-05-09 18:37:49 +02:00
Brummel 17605a3327 iter 22b.2.8: register class methods in module globals 2026-05-09 18:33:01 +02:00
Brummel b636b883a3 iter 22b.2.1: add Constraint struct, Type::Forall.constraints 2026-05-09 17:34:39 +02:00
Brummel eb4db9dafc iter 22b.1.2: workspace registry skeleton + coherence checks
Adds the workspace-global typeclass instance registry per Decision 11
"Resolution and monomorphisation". Built at the end of load_workspace
after the DFS over imports completes; keyed by (class-name, type-hash)
where type-hash uses the new canonical::type_hash (16-hex prefix,
parallel to def_hash and module_hash).

Three coherence checks fire from build_registry, each surfacing as a
distinct WorkspaceLoadError variant:

- OrphanInstance: `instance C T` not in C's or T's defining module.
- DuplicateInstance: two entries share the same (class, type-hash) key.
- MissingMethod: instance omits a required (non-default) method.

The CLI's workspace_error_to_diagnostic is extended with the three new
codes (orphan-instance / duplicate-instance / missing-method).

All existing Workspace { ... } construction sites get the new
`registry` field, defaulting to Registry::default() at synthetic /
test-only paths and threading through ws.registry.clone() at codepath
sites that already hold a real workspace.

Includes hash-stability regression tests (iter22b1_schema_extension_*
and iter22b1_classdef_empty_optionals_hash_stable) and the empty-
registry positive test against examples/sum.ail.json. Test count:
288 → 291 (3 new tests, all pass).
2026-05-09 12:37:00 +02:00
Brummel f25d7b6cd6 iter 22b.1.1: ClassDef/InstanceDef AST + downstream match arms
Adds Def::Class(ClassDef) and Def::Instance(InstanceDef) variants per
Decision 11 §"Form-A schema". All optional fields (superclass, doc,
default body) carry skip_serializing_if so canonical-JSON bytes of
pre-22b fixtures stay bit-identical.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JOURNAL: design entry + iter 19a shipping entry.
2026-05-08 17:56:58 +02:00
Brummel 6b3ff3bbed tidy: rewrite stale 18b/18c.x doc-headers to match shipped state
First half of the post-18-arc tidy-iter (per the new CLAUDE.md
iter-cycle rule). Architect's drift review flagged module-doc
headers describing 18b's leak-everything snapshot or 18c.x's
"deferred" debt that has since shipped. Doc-only changes; cargo
build clean, cargo test --workspace green at e2e=61, no
behavioural change.

- runtime/rc.c top-of-file header: rewrote from "Iter 18b
  deliberately stops at the layout and the alloc... programs
  leak every allocation" (false post-18c.3) to a stage summary
  spanning 18b–18e. Fixed `--memory=rc` reference (renamed to
  `--alloc=rc` in 18b's CLI work). Updated ailang_rc_inc /
  ailang_rc_dec block comments to point at `drop_<m>_<T>` and
  the worklist as the cascade owners, not at "18c will wire
  this up".

- ailang-check uniqueness.rs module-doc: replaced the "deferred
  to later iters" block (which named 18c.4 + 18d as future
  work, both shipped) with a current "what this pass does NOT
  do" block. Cross-fn reasoning is still genuinely deferred;
  per-type drop fns and recursive cascades are NOT this pass's
  job by design (codegen does them, not the inference).

- ailang-codegen emit_drop_fn_for_type doc + in-body comment:
  rewrote "Iter 18e replaces the recursive call with an
  iterative worklist free" to describe the actual shipped
  behaviour — the 18e (drop-iterative) annotation routes
  annotated types through emit_iterative_drop_fn_for_type;
  unannotated types stay recursive by orchestrator design
  (cheaper IR, no worklist alloc).

Held back for the second half of the tidy-iter (pending the
ailang-bencher determinism result):

- DESIGN.md Decision 10 line 700 says modes are "mandatory"
  but lines 940–952 admit they're opt-in with deferred
  mandatoriness. The bench result either supports tightening
  the mandatoriness claim or backs down to "opt-in with
  performance benefit" — orchestrator-level decision blocked
  on the bench data.
- Dynamic-tag partial-drop debt is captured in JOURNAL but
  should be surfaced in DESIGN as a known precision gap.
2026-05-08 13:34:32 +02:00
Brummel ce6ab8ee44 Iter 18e: (drop-iterative) annotation + worklist allocator
Closes the 18-arc's stack-recursion limit. Recursive drop
cascades from 18c.4 overflow on long ADT chains (Linux's 8 MB
default stack maxes out around 1M cells of List). The new
opt-in (drop-iterative) annotation on a Def::Type switches the
synthesised drop_<m>_<T> body from recursive to iterative-with-
explicit-worklist for that type.

Schema:
- TypeDef.drop_iterative: bool. Default false; serde-skip
  when false so existing fixtures' canonical JSON hashes stay
  stable.
- Form-A: (drop-iterative) clause inside (data T ...).

Worklist runtime (4 new ABI symbols in runtime/rc.c):
- ailang_drop_worklist_new(initial_capacity)
- ailang_drop_worklist_push(wl, ptr)
- ailang_drop_worklist_pop(wl) -> ptr
- ailang_drop_worklist_free(wl)

Heap stretchy buffer, doubling on overflow, null-filtering on
push. Lean 4 / Roc precedent documented in the runtime; the
slot-repurposing strategy was considered and rejected because
not every box has a free pointer-typed slot to thread the
worklist through (Cons head is i64, slot 1 is ptr but it's
the field we're following — no free slot).

Codegen (emit_iterative_drop_fn_for_type): for a
drop_iterative type, drop_<m>_<T>(ptr %p) emits a worklist
loop. Fields of the SAME annotated type push onto the
worklist (mono-typed); fields of DIFFERENT types call their
own drop fn directly (recursive on those, but only if THEY
are themselves recursive — i.e. one level of cascade jump
maximum). Mono-typed-worklist is sound for the deep-self-
recursion case the iter targets (List of List of T just
needs the spine flattened).

Tests:
- examples/rc_drop_iterative_long_list — 1M-cell List of Int
  with (drop-iterative) annotation.
- alloc_rc_drop_iterative_handles_million_cell_list E2E —
  builds + runs under --alloc=rc, asserts clean exit. With
  annotation: exits 0. Without annotation (control): SIGSEGV
  at exit code 139 (verified by hand). Worklist is load-
  bearing.
- iter18e_drop_iterative_emits_worklist_body_no_self_recursion
  IR-shape: worklist body has br to loop_head AND no direct
  recursive call into drop_<m>_<T>.
- iter18e_no_annotation_keeps_recursive_drop_body — control:
  unannotated variant still emits the 18c.4 recursive shape.
- 3 surface parse-tests for the annotation round-trip.

Test deltas: e2e 58 -> 61 (+3), surface 18 -> 21 (+3). All
other buckets unchanged. cargo test --workspace green.

Known debt (deliberate):
- Mono-typed worklist: cross-type drop-iterative fields call
  the other type's drop fn directly. A heterogeneous
  worklist would be more general but adds tag tracking
  complexity for a case (drop-iterative T containing
  drop-iterative T') that's narrower than the deep-self-
  recursion target. Documented in
  emit_iterative_drop_fn_for_type's doc.
- Closure / Type::Var / Type::Forall fields fall back to
  shallow ailang_rc_dec via field_drop_call — same as the
  recursive variant.
- Dynamic-tag partial-drop fallback (head_or_zero epilogue
  shallow dec when moved_slots non-empty) — out of scope per
  brief.
2026-05-08 12:53:09 +02:00
Brummel 73545ab086 Iter 18d.2: codegen reuse-as in-place rewrite under --alloc=rc
Lowers Term::ReuseAs { source, body=Term::Ctor } under
--alloc=rc to a runtime refcount-1 dispatch. At the reuse-as
site:

  %hdr_ptr = getelementptr i8, ptr %src, i64 -8
  %refcnt  = load i64, ptr %hdr_ptr
  %is_one  = icmp eq i64 %refcnt, 1
  br i1 %is_one, label %reuse, label %fresh

The reuse arm overwrites the source's box in place: stores the
new tag at offset 0 and the new field values at offsets 8, 16,
... — no malloc, no outer drop. The fresh arm allocates a brand-
new box via ailang_rc_alloc, stores tag and fields, then shallow-
dec's the source. Both arms phi-join to the same `ptr` result.

Other allocators (gc, bump) keep 18d.1's identity behaviour
unchanged.

Static shape compatibility is enforced by a new pre-codegen
pass crates/ailang-check/src/reuse_shape.rs. It tracks the
path-resolved ctor of every let-bound and pattern-matched
binder, then checks each Term::ReuseAs site against the body's
ctor. Mismatches emit reuse-as-shape-mismatch with stable
ctx.reason sub-codes (field-count-mismatch, field-type-mismatch,
indeterminate-source-ctor, cross-module-body-ctor, ctor-not-in-
module) and a drop-the-wrapper SuggestedRewrite. Build fails on
mismatch — the structured diagnostic tells the author whether
to fix the shapes or remove the hint.

Field-cleanup design — deliberate scope cut:

The reuse arm does NOT dec the old pointer-typed field values
before overwriting them. Doing so on the canonical fixture
`(reuse-as xs (Cons (+h 1) (map_inc t)))` causes use-after-free:
the recursive map_inc(t) returns t's in-place-rewritten box, so
the "new tail" being stored is the same pointer as the "old
tail". A dec-old-then-store-new schedule would dec the box (to
zero, free), then store the freed pointer.

The root cause is upstream: 18c.4 doesn't yet null-out pattern-
moved field slots, so codegen can't statically distinguish
"old field still owned" from "already moved out". The chosen
trade-off: skip the field dec entirely; pattern-wildcarded
fields (rare in shipping fixtures) leak; pattern-moved fields
are the body's responsibility (consistent with the 18c.4 leak
baseline — Own params still leak today). 18d.2 ships zero
regression vs 18c.4, plus the perf win on the alloc + outer
cascade. Closing the leak is the move-aware-pattern story
queued for 18d.3 / 18e.

Tests:
- e2e reuse_as_demo_under_rc_uses_inplace_rewrite — runs
  examples/reuse_as_demo.ail.json under --alloc=rc, asserts
  stdout 9 and locks in the IR shape (icmp eq i64 ..., 1; the
  reuse arm has no @ailang_rc_alloc call).
- workspace reuse_as_shape_mismatch_is_reported_on_cons_to_nil
  — happy negative for the new diagnostic.
- 3 unit tests in reuse_shape::tests covering same-ctor-clean,
  cons-to-nil-reject, and indeterminate-source-ctor-reject.

Test deltas: e2e 56, ailang-check unit 46 -> 49 (+3), workspace
9 -> 10 (+1). cargo test --workspace green. Hand-verified
--alloc=rc binary on reuse_as_demo: stdout 9, exit 0.
2026-05-08 11:21:02 +02:00
Brummel 74379b29e5 Iter 18d.1: Term::ReuseAs schema + linearity check
Schema floor for explicit reuse hints. Adds Term::ReuseAs
{ source: Box<Term>, body: Box<Term> } with serde tag "reuse-as",
form-A (reuse-as <source> <body>). Schema choice (wrapper, not
modifier-on-Ctor) and rationale recorded in DESIGN.md.

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

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

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

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

Test deltas: E2E 55 -> 56, ailang-check unit 43 -> 46,
ailang-check workspace 8 -> 9, surface 14 -> 18. cargo test
--workspace green. No existing fixture's canonical JSON changed.
2026-05-08 10:55:31 +02:00
Brummel 307a3ea848 Iter 18c.3: uniqueness inference + non-recursive RC inc/dec
Ends the leak-everything era under --alloc=rc. Codegen now emits
ailang_rc_inc at every Term::Clone site and ailang_rc_dec at
end-of-scope of trackable RC-allocated let-binders. Default
--alloc=boehm path is byte-identical to before this iter.

Two parts:

(A) New module ailang-check::uniqueness — post-typecheck
    dataflow producing UniquenessTable: BTreeMap<(def, binder),
    UniquenessInfo>. consume_count is max-over-paths: at if/match
    the walker saves state, walks each arm against the snapshot,
    and merges by taking the per-binder max. Term::Clone is a
    Borrow on its inner term — the explicit clone is the user's
    signal that a fresh ref is being produced via inc.

(B) Codegen emission in ailang-codegen. Term::Clone emits inc
    under --alloc=rc, gated on val_ty == "ptr" and
    !val_ssa.starts_with('@') (top-level fn closure-pair globals
    live in the LLVM data segment, not in runtime/rc.c's heap).
    Term::Let emits dec at scope close iff the value is
    rc_alloc'd (Term::Ctor / Term::Lam in escape set under
    --alloc=rc), val_ty == "ptr", consume_count == 0 (no callee
    or outer site already took ownership), body's tail SSA is
    not the binder itself (caller-takes-ownership case), and the
    block isn't already terminated.

Header declares of @ailang_rc_inc / @ailang_rc_dec are gated on
--alloc=rc so Boehm/Bump IR shape is unchanged.

Fixture examples/rc_box_drop.ail.json: single-cell Box(Int) ADT
where shallow free is sufficient (no boxed children). E2E test
alloc_rc_emits_dec_for_unique_let_bound_box runs it under both
gc and rc, asserts byte-identical stdout, clean exit, expected
output (42).

Scope cuts deferred to 18c.4: per-type drop fn / recursive dec
cascades for ADTs with boxed children (List, Tree still leak
their tails). Fn params have no dec emission yet (no static
"caller handed off ownership" signal under Implicit mode);
under explicit (own T) the signal exists but wiring is 18d.

Tests: E2E 52 -> 53, ailang-check unit 38 -> 43 (+5 uniqueness),
all other buckets unchanged. cargo test --workspace green.
2026-05-08 10:25:22 +02:00
Brummel 09fb5bb113 Iter 18c.2: linearity check + suggested_rewrites
Adds a per-fn linearity check that runs on every fn whose
param_modes are all explicit (Borrow or Own, no Implicit), tracks
each binder's consume/borrow state through the AST, and emits
two diagnostics with form-A `suggested_rewrites`:

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

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

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

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

Tests: 3 unit tests in `linearity::tests`, 3 integration tests
in `ailang-check/tests/workspace.rs`, 1 serialisation test in
`diagnostic.rs`. `cargo test --workspace` green.
2026-05-08 10:06:14 +02:00
Brummel 7dfc88a4f3 Iter 18c.1: Term::Clone schema (no inc emission yet)
Adds (clone X) as a new Term variant. Form-A:
  (let p (expensive_fn x)
    (do consume_a (clone p))    ; explicit RC inc — needs 18c.3
    (do consume_b p))

Schema floor for the LLM-aware RC design (Decision 10): explicit
clone is the author-visible alternative to implicit sharing. In
18c.1 the variant is purely additive — typechecker treats it as
identity (same type as inner), codegen lowers it to the inner
term's IR with no extra calls. Iter 18c.3 will replace the
codegen identity-arm with a single call:

  Term::Clone { value } =>
      let v = self.lower_term(value, ...)?;
      self.emit("call void @ailang_rc_inc(ptr {v})");
      Ok(v)

Match-arm count: ~10 sites across 6 files, all mechanical
structural recursion through `value`. The codegen `lower_term`
arm carries an explicit comment marking the 18c.3 emission seam.

Hash invariant: `(clone X)` uses a new serde tag "clone" that no
pre-18c.1 fixture contains. Every existing fixture's canonical
JSON is bit-identical (git diff examples/ empty).

New fixture examples/clone_demo.{ailx,ail.json}:
  (let x 42 (do io/print_int (clone x)))
Stdout 42 under both --alloc=gc and --alloc=rc.

Tail-position propagates through clone (verify_tail_positions
treats `(clone tail-call)` as itself a tail call), per the
identity-of-clone semantics in 18c.1.

Verified:
- cargo build --workspace clean
- cargo test --workspace green: 52 e2e (+1), 14 surface parse
  (+2 for clone tests), all other buckets unchanged
- ail render round-trip exact
- clone_demo --alloc=gc → 42; --alloc=rc → 42
2026-05-08 02:26:12 +02:00
Brummel b9ca8894a5 Iter 18a: (borrow T) / (own T) mode annotations on fn signatures
Adds form-A surface (borrow T) / (own T) wrappers in fn-type
params and ret slots. Internally these are not new Type variants
but per-position metadata on Type::Fn:

  Type::Fn { params, param_modes, ret, ret_mode, effects }
  enum ParamMode { Implicit, Own, Borrow }

This keeps Type itself unchanged, so unification, occurs, apply,
and ~190 other Type match-arms in the typechecker need no new
branch. Fields use serde skip-if-default predicates so canonical
JSON hashes for every pre-18a fixture stay bit-identical (sum,
list, hof, closure, list_map, etc.: zero diff under git).

Iter 18a is purely additive: typechecker treats modes as
transparent (mode-compat check deferred to 18c), no codegen
change (--alloc=gc / Boehm path unchanged), no linearity
enforcement. The annotation info flows into the JSON side-table
that 18c will consume.

Equality of mode slices is length-tolerant: a vec![] (the form
written by mechanically-updated construction sites that elide
modes) compares equal to vec![Implicit; n]. This kept the patch
from being a 100-site mechanical migration through the
typechecker. 18c will choose: keep the slack, or normalise to
full-length on construction.

New fixture examples/borrow_own_demo.{ailx,ail.json} exercises
both modes. list_length declares (borrow (con List)); sum_list
declares (own (con List)). Stdout: 3 then 6.

Documentation: DESIGN.md schema-additions block clarified that
modes are Type::Fn metadata (not Type variants); migration plan
flag rename --memory=rc → --alloc=rc to match the existing CLI
flag.

Verification:
- cargo build --workspace green
- cargo test --workspace green (154 tests, +1 vs baseline 153)
- git diff examples/{sum,list,hof,closure,list_map,...}.ail.json: empty
- borrow_own_demo runtime stdout: "3\n6\n"
- canonical JSON contains "param_modes":["borrow"] and ["own"]
2026-05-08 02:07:07 +02:00
Brummel 937782e36d Iter 16e: == polymorphic over Int / Bool / Str / Unit
Lifts the Int-only restriction on `==`. Declared type becomes
forall a. Fn(a, a) -> Bool; codegen monomorphises and dispatches:

  Int  → icmp eq i64
  Bool → icmp eq i1
  Str  → call @strcmp + icmp eq i32 0
  Unit → constant true (operands still emitted for side effects)
  ADT / Fn / other → CodegenError::Internal

This unblocks 16c's build_eq for non-Int lit patterns. == joins
__unreachable__ as the second polymorphic builtin (same Forall
machinery).

- check/builtins.rs: == registered as Forall(a, Fn(a, a) -> Bool).
- codegen: lower_eq dispatch table; @strcmp declared in IR header
  alongside @printf/@GC_malloc/@puts.
- examples/eq_demo.{ailx,ail.json}: covers all four supported
  scalars including a Str-lit-pattern match.
- IR snapshots refreshed: only +declare i32 @strcmp(ptr, ptr) in
  the header; every define body bit-identical.
- e2e + check + codegen tests: 124 → 133 (+9, of which +1 is the
  e2e fixture and the rest exercise the new dispatch / typecheck
  surface).

Other comparison ops (<, <=, >, >=, !=) remain Int-only — out of
scope for this iter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 23:12:24 +02:00
Brummel af35612c1d Iter 16d: chain-terminator via __unreachable__ builtin
Eliminates the Unit-typed chain default that 16c left in place.
Adds __unreachable__ : forall a. a — codegen lowers to LLVM
unreachable. The 16a/16c chain machinery now uses it as the
deepest fall-through, so exhaustive matches with non-Unit arms
no longer need a (case _ ...) workaround.

- check/builtins.rs: register __unreachable__ as Forall(a, a).
- codegen: Term::Var "__unreachable__" emits LLVM unreachable
  and sets block_terminated; If/Match/fn-body gate downstream
  work on that flag.
- desugar: chain default switched from Lit{Unit} to Var.
- examples/lit_pat: categorize_first's trailing _ arm removed.
  Hash changes from c4faec3abc2ed388 to 644de0c0ec15fc17.
- examples/unreachable_demo: positive fixture using safe_div
  with __unreachable__ in the impossible branch.
- e2e + desugar tests: 122 → 124 (+2).

Path-a from 16b.2 planning: real primitive over a desugar-time
exhaustiveness pre-check (which would need cross-module type
registry access from desugar).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 23:00:23 +02:00
Brummel e5f9828a04 Iter 16b.7: nested LetRec mutual capture (params, not name)
Inner LetRec capturing outer LetRec's params now lifts cleanly via
the existing post-order traversal — outer's params are KnownType
in inner's outer-scope, so 16b.2's fast-path handles them. Inner
LetRec capturing outer's NAME remains rejected (closure-of-self
in body, deferred separately).

Plus hardening: lift.rs's deferred path tracks the outer LetRec
name in a parallel `enclosing_letrec_names` set so the symmetric
inner-captures-outer-name rejection fires there too — without it
a silent lift produced a runtime arity mismatch.

- examples/nested_let_rec.{ailx,ail.json}: outer counts down via
  inner that captures the outer's threshold param.
- desugar.rs: clarified panic message for outer-name capture.
- lift.rs: enclosing_letrec_names tracking.
- e2e + desugar tests: 120 → 122 (+2).

End-of-16b series: feature-complete except for closure-of-self
in body and closure-with-polymorphism, both queued separately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 22:48:14 +02:00
Brummel 76d61aeced Iter 16b.6: LetRec inside polymorphic enclosing fn
Lifts the monomorphic-only restriction. Lifted top-level fn now
becomes Forall(α..., Fn(t..., T...) -> tr) when the enclosing fn
is polymorphic; capture types may mention outer type vars and
the existing mono pipeline (Iter 12b/14a) specializes them
correctly at call sites.

- desugar.rs / lift.rs: scope-building unified — Forall fn-params
  are now KnownType, not LetBound. Lift wraps augmented_ty in
  Forall mirroring the enclosing fn.
- Name-as-value-in-in-term in a polymorphic enclosing fn is
  rejected (eta-Lam wrap from 16b.5 has no Forall). Queued
  separately as closure-conversion-with-polymorphism.
- examples/poly_rec_capture.{ailx,ail.json}: apply_n_times :
  Forall(a). drives at Int and Bool to exercise two mono
  instantiations.
- e2e + check + desugar tests: 116 → 120 (+4).

Codegen pipeline untouched — apply_subst_to_type substitutes
through Fn.params uniformly (original params + appended captures).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 22:39:28 +02:00
Brummel ca507c9f52 Iter 16b.5: LetRec name as value (in_term only) via eta-Lam wrapper
Drops the direct-call-only restriction on the LetRec name when it
appears in `in_term`. No new ABI: the lift wraps the in-term in
`(let f (lam P (app f$lr_N P CAPTURES)) in_term')` so codegen's
existing Iter-8b closure-pair machinery handles it. Body-position
name-as-value still rejected (deferred — eta-of-self is harder).

- desugar.rs / lift.rs: split find_non_callee_use into body
  (panic) and in_term (wrap).
- examples/local_rec_as_value.{ailx,ail.json}: no-capture path
  (factorial passed to apply5 → 120).
- examples/local_rec_as_value_capture.{ailx,ail.json}: capture
  path; lifted fn has captures, eta-Lam picks them up via 8b.
- e2e + desugar tests: 113 → 116 (+3).

Codegen Lam machinery handled the wrapped form on the first try.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 22:27:21 +02:00
Brummel c0668178bb Iter 16b.4: LetRec captures of match-arm pattern bindings
Flips the desugar's MatchArm-capture rejection from panic to defer.
The 16b.3 lift_letrecs pass already handled match-arm bindings via
type_check_pattern_for_lift (Pattern::Var, Pattern::Ctor with sub-
patterns, ctor-field substitution against scrutinee args), so this
iter is a single-line classification change in desugar plus the
fixture and tests that exercise it.

- desugar.rs: MatchArm classification now defers (same arm as
  LetBound); EnclosingLetRec panic remains for 16b.7.
- examples/local_rec_match_capture.{ailx,ail.json}: enclosing fn
  pattern-matches on Pair<Int,Int>, inner LetRec captures both
  match-arm bindings simultaneously. Lifts to
  loop$lr_0(i: Int, threshold: Int, n: Int) -> Int.
- e2e + check + desugar tests: 110 → 113 (+3).

First fixture lifting more than one capture; subst_call_with_extras
already handled it generically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 22:16:12 +02:00
Brummel ca30606aec Iter 16b.3: post-typecheck lift for LetRec with Let-bound captures
Adds path-2 from the 16b.2 planning entry. Desugar now defers
LetRecs whose captures include Term::Let-bound names; a new
ailang-check::lift_letrecs pass runs after typecheck and uses the
elaborated env to resolve capture types. ailang-check learns a real
Term::LetRec typing rule in synth and verify_tail_positions.

- desugar: Term::LetRec arm gains a defer-arm; helpers promoted to
  pub for reuse by the lift pass; find_non_callee_use moved before
  classification.
- ailang-check::synth/verify_tail_positions: real LetRec rules
  (effect-subset, locals install, recursive name in body+in_term).
- ailang-check::lift.rs (new, 720 LOC): post-typecheck lift with
  post-order traversal, env-walk for capture-type resolution,
  fast-path skip when no LetRec is present.
- ail::main.rs: build path now does load → check → desugar →
  lift_letrecs → codegen.
- examples/local_rec_let_capture.{ailx,ail.json}: new fixture
  capturing a let-bound `threshold` in a recursive helper.
- e2e + check unit tests: 106 → 110 (+4).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 22:07:05 +02:00