writeonce/docs/plan/oop-vm
shoney.arickathil 3f842f854b feat(compiler): remove @gc from the language — GC-ness is fully inferred (7b)
`@gc` is no longer part of the language: a developer never writes or mentions
it. GC-ness is decided entirely by inference (structural cycles + demand
promotion), which the earlier 7b commits made complete and precise.

- parser: `@gc` on a class is now WO-E104 ("GC-ness is inferred; run
  `woc --dump-gc`. Remove it."). `is_gc` stays false; the class classifies by
  inference. No `.wo` in the repo carries `@gc` anymore.
- types.ml: retired the WO-W201 machinery (suggest_gc_annotation,
  has_recursive_structure(_type), has_unique_field, gc_suggestion_code) — it
  suggested `@gc`, now obsolete since inference traces exactly those classes.
- runner.ml: deleted the 8 WO-W201 gc-suggestion test blocks; the @gc-exemption
  test's `Cache` is made self-referential so inference classifies it gc without
  an annotation.
- fixtures: dropped `@gc` from rc.wo (Cache demand-promotes via its escape),
  elision.wo (Cache given a self-ref to stay structurally gc for the rc-elision
  dump), pricing-demo.wo (PriceCache doesn't escape -> now owned), and the
  abandoned-cycle/budget-steps corpus (Node is structurally gc). rc.wo keeps a
  placeholder comment line so its line-indexed rc assertions hold. Goldens
  re-blessed.
- docs: error catalog gains WO-E104 and marks WO-W201 retired; gc-cycle README
  records the keyword removal.

Verified: woc-test 553/0 (was 566 minus the 13 retired WO-W201 checks),
test_diag 14/0, oop-e2e 79/0, employee 8/0, log-watcher 7/0. `git grep '@gc'`
finds only comments — success criterion 1 met.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 19:19:09 +02:00
..
00-wob-format.md feat: insert executes (iteration 9, Task 3) -- DB_STUB retires for insert 2026-08-15 11:15:06 +02:00
01-error-catalog.md feat(compiler): remove @gc from the language — GC-ness is fully inferred (7b) 2026-08-18 19:19:09 +02:00
02-corpus.md feat(compiler): iteration 5 Tasks 1-4 — modules, language surface, switch, typedef records + enum variants 2026-08-12 14:40:07 +02:00
04-db-binding.md feat: insert executes (iteration 9, Task 3) -- DB_STUB retires for insert 2026-08-15 11:15:06 +02:00
08-builtin-surface.md docs: record copy-on-push (gap closed) and the SIGTERM-in-accept gap 2026-08-14 18:50:54 +02:00
README.md feat: milestone 1 complete — .wob emitter, conformance corpus, single binary; GC redesign specced 2026-08-11 19:31:26 +02:00

docs/plan/oop-vm/ — OOP + systems track contracts

The normative contract documents both stacks cite. Landed by their named plan tasks:

doc contract plan
00-wob-format.md .wob bytecode format (compiler↔VM) 1
01-error-catalog.md every WO-E### code 2, grows 3/8
02-corpus.md how to add conformance fixtures 3
03-shard-actor.md shard ownership, mailboxes, send-as-move 4
04-db-binding.md row format, WAL records, query subset 5
05-http-service.md route section, trap→HTTP table, JSON subset 6
06-ui-live.md delta frames, subscribe protocol, wo:live 7
07-systems-stdlib.md per-function nil-vs-trap contracts 9
08-builtin-surface.md builtin source names, container/call/entry rules the emitter enforces 3

Specs and plans: docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/. Repo map: docs/08-project-structure.md.