writeonce/docs/stories/language-runtime-database/05-language-surface.md
shoney.arickathil c0b0dbb846 docs: audit all markdown against the code, fix findings, flatten status folders
- README: shipped concurrency/HTTP/WebSockets sat in the roadmap as "not yet
  available"; "no package manager" contradicted [deps]; the deps example
  would not have compiled (the key IS the module name)
- runtime/README: leads with wovm, wo-rt.c demoted to a historical section;
  dropped 2 nonexistent recipes, crates/rt, @gc refcounting, 13 suites -> 18
- employee + log-watcher READMEs claimed "does not compile"; both are gates
- error catalog: +10 emitted codes incl WO-E250, the only diagnostic the
  shipped query surface raises; recorded why the sweep rotted
- language-surface: group-by parses, then the typechecker refuses it
- 00-code-review + 00-link-audit re-run; history kept, not rewritten
- 48 dead Rust-era exploration links de-linked rather than re-pointed (their
  prose names the retired plan by number); successor map -> discarded.md
- 08-project-structure: compiler/plan/ never existed; corpus has 9 dirs, 5 empty
- releasing.md: dropped a --draft step the workflow never had
- new docs/00-doc-audit.md: findings + disposition, incl one row where the
  audit was wrong and the doc it accused was right
- status folders removed: 34 stories flat, status only in frontmatter; 252
  links recomputed from resolved paths; board/board-views/structure retaught
- story 24 -> in-progress, since frontmatter is now the only truth
- new iteration 38: fs mutation verbs + net.connect, the two capability
  families no iteration owned
- new iteration 39: gofiber/fiber v3.5.0 parity study. The ledger called
  CSRF/sessions unblocked by iteration 34's HMAC, but the runtime has no
  source of randomness at all
- linkcheck skips .dev/.superpowers: 0 broken paths, 0 bad anchors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 19:20:22 +02:00

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iteration status
5 done

Iteration 5 — language surface (Haxe-parity adoptions)

Format: product/story-iteration-template. Part of Story — one language, one runtime, one database, one binary.

Status: ✅ COMPLETE 2026-08-20. The grammar half landed 2026-08-14 — modules, and/or, interpolation, const, loop control, switch expressions, typedef records, enum payloads, try/catch, nil/?T, statics, pub(read) syntax, container literals, for k, v in m, as. The strictness half landed in three waves: ?T forced handling (WO-E211/212/213 + narrowing) and reject rows (WO-E105) on 2026-08-18; the final three on 2026-08-20 (branch language-surface-strictness, developer directive overriding the post-12 park) — pub(read) write enforcement (WO-E219, class-owned writes, corpus-pinned), using static extensions (compile-time rewrite to a free-fn call, WO-E220 on method collision, zero owner/emit awareness), and #if build flags (woc -D name, token-level filter, WO-E003 misuse). is/throw stay cut (0 workload uses); abstract is a reject row. Plan 8 is closed.

Goals

  • The language grows from milestone grammar to a daily-driver surface: the systems-track verdict table's every adopt row — switch expressions, typedef records with ?fields, ?T optionals with null-narrowing, enum payload variants, try/catch/throw over traps, static members, abstract newtypes, using extensions, use modules, is, pub / pub(read), #if build flags, string interpolation, loop control.
  • Every reject row (inheritance, Dynamic, cast, macros, FFI…) refuses with a diagnostic citing doctrine — the language's boundaries are as deliberate as its features.

Acceptance Criteria

  • What to achieve?
    • Given the verdict table in the systems-track spec,
    • when the corpus runs,
    • then every adopt row has at least one golden fixture and one must-fail fixture passing, and every reject row that would parse produces its doctrine-citing diagnostic.
  • What to achieve?
    • Given a switch over a union missing one variant and lacking default,
    • when it compiles,
    • then the diagnostic names exactly the missing variants.
  • What to achieve?
    • Given the three fenced VM changes (catch frames, variant objects, boxed scalar optionals),
    • when they land,
    • then the format doc is updated in the same change and all prior trap fixtures still pass byte-for-byte.

Out Of Scope

  • Stdlib modules and program mode (iteration 6).
  • Any new VM capability beyond the three fenced changes.

Info

  • Normative table: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-systems-track-design.md Part 1.
  • Order inside the plan matters: modules first (everything imports through them), data shapes before optionals, rejects last.

Proposed Solution

  • Execute the existing plan: compiler/plan/2026-08-01-haxe-parity-language.md (nine tasks, each shipping its fixtures and error-catalog entries in the same task).