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Brummel 2ed355c6fa fieldtest: loop-recur — 10 examples, 6 findings (milestone CLOSE, clean on all axes)
Post-audit downstream-LLM-author field test of the shipped
loop/recur surface (DESIGN.md + public examples only). 3 real
iterative programs (Newton isqrt, Collatz, Euclidean gcd) + 5
plausible-mistake negatives + 2 no-termination probes, all run
through the public ail CLI. 0 bugs. 4 working findings on the
milestone's own axes: rejection diagnostics point-exact AND
self-fixing; recur tail-position threads through match/let/outer-if
(spec only showed if); loop composes as a value sub-expression +
byte-stable round-trip; no-termination boundary exact. This
empirically substantiates the "LLM author can now write iterative
programs" claim.

Two orthogonal non-blocking findings, neither in loop/recur scope,
both routed to P2 todos (refused the scope creep into a loop/recur
tidy): niladic (app f) spec_gap independently re-confirms the
existing mut-local-F3 roadmap item (the design-fork decision
deliberately NOT auto-ratified under /boss — parked,
priority-strengthened); module-level (doc) diagnostic-hint friction
(one-line tidy). Boss-verified independently (gcd->27;
recur-outside-loop fires exact).

The standalone loop/recur milestone is fully ratified and CLOSED:
3 iterations + tidy shipped, audit clean (drift resolved, bench
pristine carry-on), fieldtest clean on every axis. Roadmap P0
marked closed.
2026-05-18 00:31:19 +02:00

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; NEGATIVE FIXTURE. The LLM-natural mistake: inside the loop body
; the author builds a closure that closes over the loop binder
; `acc` (a `\delta. acc + delta` adder) and applies it. Loop
; binders are alloca-resident and may not be captured.
; Expected: `ail check` exits 1 with code loop-binder-captured-by-lambda.
(module loop_recur_3e_binder_captured
(fn apply_int
(type (fn-type (params (fn-type (params (con Int)) (ret (con Int))) (con Int)) (ret (con Int))))
(params f x)
(body (app f x)))
(fn sum_to
(type (fn-type (params (con Int)) (ret (con Int))))
(params n)
(body
(loop (acc (con Int) 0) (i (con Int) 1)
(if (app > i n)
acc
(recur (app apply_int (lam (params (typed d (con Int))) (ret (con Int)) (body (app + acc d))) i)
(app + i 1))))))
(fn main
(type (fn-type (params) (ret (con Unit)) (effects IO)))
(params)
(body (app print (app sum_to 10)))))