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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

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; Iter 16b.7 — nested LetRec mutual capture (params, not name).
;
; `nested_sum(n)` returns the sum 1 + 2 + ... + n by combining two
; recursive helpers. The OUTER let-rec `outer(i)` iterates i over
; 1..=n; for each i it calls the INNER let-rec `inner(j)` to count
; how many integers are in 1..=i (= i). The total is then
; 1 + 2 + ... + n = n*(n+1)/2.
;
; The shape exercises:
; - outer captures `n` from `nested_sum`'s fn-params (16b.2 case).
; - inner captures `i` from outer LetRec's PARAMS (16b.7 case
; under iter — outer LetRec's params are KnownType in body
; scope, so the inner lift sees a resolvable capture type).
; - inner does NOT capture outer's NAME (still rejected in 16b.7).
;
; Expected stdout (one per line):
; nested_sum(1) = 1
; nested_sum(3) = 6
; nested_sum(5) = 15
(module nested_let_rec
(fn nested_sum
(doc "Sum 1 + 2 + ... + n by nested LetRec helpers; inner captures outer's param i.")
(type (fn-type (params (con Int)) (ret (con Int))))
(params n)
(body
(let-rec outer
(params i)
(type (fn-type (params (con Int)) (ret (con Int))))
(body
(if (app > i n)
0
(app +
(let-rec inner
(params j)
(type (fn-type (params (con Int)) (ret (con Int))))
(body
(if (app > j i)
0
(app + 1 (app inner (app + j 1)))))
(in (app inner 1)))
(app outer (app + i 1)))))
(in (app outer 1)))))
(fn main
(doc "Drive nested_sum at 1, 3, 5. Expected (per line): 1, 6, 15.")
(type (fn-type (params) (ret (con Unit)) (effects IO)))
(params)
(body
(seq (do io/print_int (app nested_sum 1))
(seq (do io/print_int (app nested_sum 3))
(do io/print_int (app nested_sum 5)))))))