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v0.1.12 burndown, the #1304 group: the import-collision ruling implemented — and its ADT/constructor twin, found by review, folded in. (Close keyword rides the code commit; #1304 closes at the release PR's merge to main.)

The ruling and the fix

Maintainer ruling on #1304 (derivation on the issue): refuse everywhere. Two imports supplying the same bare name previously produced a nondeterministic checker verdict in non-entry modules — eight runs of one file flipped between OK and E121, the winner tracking module-name hash order — with codegen's E608 catching the shape only at compile. Now the checker itself refuses at check time with E155, computed from the same shared visibility derivation codegen uses, definition-gated exactly as the E608 rail always was (measured at base: even a qualified-only user was E608 — the ambiguous import pair is the trigger, so the remedies are a selective import or a local declaration, and the diagnostic's fix text names the one that works). The flap doesn't get papered over; it stops existing — 12 seeds × both import orders produce one verdict and one diagnostic byte-stream.

The review's HIGH finding: the ADT/constructor twin still flapped (two modules exporting data Shape; E213/OK across seeds; accepting seeds check-green, verify-green, then a degenerate-span E609 at run naming modules the entry never imports) — while spec §8.5.4 already said constructors follow function-name rules. Folded: E156 (data type) and E157 (constructor), the three-code split derived from how E608/E609/E610 partition by namespace and proven real from both sides — a constructor-only clash yields E157 alone, a type-only clash E156 alone. Data-side escape hatches were measured not to exist (narrowing, local declaration, and a private namesake all still die at E609 — three measurements pinned by a test so the fix text can never drift into remedies that fail), which surfaced the underlying over-breadth as #1317 (the ADT analogue of #1281, rows on this branch).

The fix round also caught and fixed a regression its own first commit introduced: the checker's derivation call passed no prelude, so a name the built-in registry owns was flagged ambiguous (base-green programs newly refused; measured via a module exporting a 1-arg option_map where bare calls resolve against the prelude's 2-arg signature). Fixed by passing the checker's own built-in snapshots, with cells pinning both directions and the previously-false "cannot disagree" comment corrected to the measured ordering.

The review arc (two rounds to fixed point)

Round 1 (adversarial, eight findings): the mechanism held everywhere it was attacked — base flap reproduced with the reviewer's own driver, diagnostic-byte stability fingerprinted, definition-gating justification reproduced at base, every over/under-refusal probe behaving, the E608 backstop proven non-vacuous by mutation — and found the HIGH ADT twin, the F6 prelude regression, four doc surfaces still telling the old story (including a spec promise of qualified-call mangling that the ruling forecloses), an unpinned diagnostic location, and two nits. Fix round: the fold, the regression root-caused and fixed, all doc surfaces aligned (§8.5.4 now true; §11.16's mangling promise retired; SKILL's four sites split by namespace), four positional cells killing the reviewer's surviving mutant, and two more mutants that survived the first battery run closed honestly with new controls.

Round 2 (acceptance): fixed point — every number reproduced under a rebuilt harness with per-run interpreter canaries (the reviewer's own first pass measured the wrong tree and said so), the type-only half of the split proof added, the no-escape-hatch cells proven non-vacuous by inverting them, 9/9 mutations killed including the F6-reintroduction mutant, and all documentation verified true against measurement.

Measured

Determinism: 12 seeds × both orders × three clash kinds → one verdict, one byte-stream each (the test that was impossible before the fix, with the base flap recorded as its RED evidence). Corpus differential vs the branch point: 0 movers across all 268 pre-existing programs; the manifest gained 9 entries with zero pre-existing entries moved. Conformance 235 (negatives both orders for all three codes).

Gates at head: 10,898 passed / 347 browser / 235 conformance / 42 examples / 283 corpus canonical / mypy clean / doc counts oracle-consistent (11,091). KNOWN_ISSUES: #1317 row in (nothing removed — #1304 carries no bug row); spec §8.11 gains the matching limitation row, verified against the live tracker. Merges into release/v0.1.12 on convergence per the burndown's granted authority; rebases across the C merge when it lands.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added diagnostics for ambiguous imported functions, data types and constructors.
    • Qualified module calls remain available when bare names are ambiguous.
    • Improved generic-function and multi-state effect constructor resolution.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected namespace collision handling and deterministic name resolution.
    • Refined generic collision checks to identify genuine conflicts only.
  • Documentation

    • Updated module guidance, testing information, FAQs, roadmap and project metrics.
    • Documented new diagnostics and known validation limitations.

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Adversarial review record

Two rounds by an independent review agent to fixed point.

Round 1 — initial adversarial review (verdict: fix round required, eight findings)

# Finding Fix
F1 (HIGH) The ADT/constructor twin of #1304's shape still flapped — two modules exporting data Shape: E213/OK across seeds (byte-identical base and branch), and an accepting seed was check-green, verify-green, then a line-0/column-0 E609 at run naming modules the entry never imports. Spec §8.5.4 ("constructors follow the same shadowing rules as function names") made the new function-only rule internally inconsistent Folded: E156 (data) + E157 (constructor), split derived from E608/E609/E610's one-code-per-namespace pattern; ADT determinism battery both orders × seeds; data-side escape hatches measured not to exist (three probes pinned by a cell) so the fix text prescribes the remedy that works; the underlying E609 over-breadth filed as #1317 with Bugs row + spec §8.11 limitation row
F2/F3 (MED) Four SKILL sites and spec §11.16 still told the old story — including a "qualified-call disambiguation via name mangling is planned" promise the ruling forecloses All surfaces split by namespace; the mangling promise retired; §11.16 states "qualified calls do not disambiguate a collision and are not a route to doing so"; zero repo hits for the old phrasing
F4 (MED) Open #187 forecloses on the function half, unremarked ROADMAP line narrowed to data types and constructors; the issue comment posted by the coordinator
F5 (LOW-MED) No cell pinned which import the diagnostic points at — the deps[-1]deps[0] mutant survived Four positional cells (E155 ×2, E156 ×2) asserting the last supplying import; the mutant dies
F6 (LOW) The "one derivation, cannot disagree" comment was measured false — and the root cause was a regression the first commit introduced: the checker's call passed no prelude, so built-in-owned names were flagged ambiguous (base-green programs newly refused) Fixed by passing the checker's built-in fn/type/ctor snapshots; both directions pinned (a prelude-owned name with one module supplier is not reported; a name nothing owns with two suppliers still is); the comment corrected to the measured call-ordering, now pinned by a cell rather than described
F7/F8 (NIT) Stale line count; bare placeholder in the fix text Re-measured (476); angle-bracketed placeholder + gloss per the repo convention

Fix-round instruments: 17 mutations, zero survivors — including two (M14 private-ADT-supplies, M16 data-injected-anyway) that survived the first battery run and were closed with a private-ADT control and a structural environment cell rather than shipped green.

Round 2 — acceptance (verdict: fixed point)

The reviewer's own first probe pass reported "still flapping" — its harness had measured the wrong tree (session cwd shadowing PYTHONPATH); it rebuilt with explicit cwd and a per-run interpreter canary before reporting, and every number below comes from that harness. ADTFLAP both orders × 12 seeds → one verdict, one diagnostic byte-stream; constructor-only → E157 alone; the reviewer added the missing half of the split proof — a type-only clash yields E156 alone. The F6 regression probe holds in both directions; the no-escape-hatch cells were proven non-vacuous by inverting their assertions (both parametrizations go red); 9/9 mutations killed including an F6-reintroduction mutant; every doc claim verified true against measurement, the manifest's 235 entries structurally checked for zero moved pre-existing entries, and check_limitations_sync --check-states green against the live tracker.

Two residual notes, non-blocking: a single 86-column line in the commit body, and the prelude-owned two-supplier clash remaining check-green/compile-E608 — correct per §8.5.2.2 (the incumbent owns the bare name, so there is no ambiguity) and base-identical, recorded as a sibling-in-kind observation on #1317.

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The compiler now rejects ambiguous imported functions, data types, and constructors with E155–E157. Namespace tracking excludes ambiguous bare names while retaining qualified access. Tests, specifications, and project metrics cover the new behaviour and expanded conformance suite.

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Imported namespace ambiguity enforcement

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Namespace analysis and checker enforcement
vera/monomorphize.py, vera/checker/*, vera/errors.py, vera/codegen/*, vera/prelude.py
The compiler records deterministic clashes for imported functions, data types, and constructors. The checker emits E155–E157 and removes ambiguous bare bindings. Code generation retains a collision backstop.
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tests/module_fixture_helpers.py, tests/conformance/manifest.json, tests/test_ambiguous_import_refusal_1304.py, tests/test_module_generic_collision_1281.py
Multi-module fixtures can compile checker-rejected programs. Tests cover diagnostics, import filtering, built-ins, qualified calls, local declarations, selective imports, and generic collisions.
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spec/*.md, SKILL.md, TESTING.md, CHANGELOG.md, README.md, FAQ.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, ROADMAP.md, KNOWN_ISSUES.md, vera/README.md
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The PR makes ambiguous imports fail deterministically at check time across namespaces and declaration kinds. It is otherwise mergeable, but CHANGELOG.md still labels E200 as a warning, so the release documentation should be corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: refusing ambiguous bare names supplied by two imports across namespaces and declaration kinds.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 11: Update the E200 reference in the changelog entry to identify it as
error severity, not W-severity, while preserving the surrounding description of
the ordinary bare-call diagnostic.

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- Line 11: Update the KNOWN_ISSUES entry to scope the documented collision and
remediation to E609, since the evidence only covers same-named data declarations
and provides no constructor collision case for E610; remove E610 references
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Spec 8.5 ordered a local declaration against an import and gave the
module-qualified form for reaching what a clash hides, but defined no order
between two imports that both supply one name.  Neither did the
implementation: a module importing two dependencies that each export
`forall<T> fn gen` — one returning `@Int`, one `@Bool` — bound its bare call
to whichever supplier a set of module paths yielded first, so one unchanged
file was check-green on one run and `[E121] body has type Bool` on the next.
Measured at the branch point: accepted on hash seeds 0, 2 and 3, rejected on
1, 4, 5, 6 and 7, with the winner tracking module-name hash order rather than
which import is written first.

Spec 8.5.2.2 now states the rule — a program MUST NOT leave a namespace with
two imports supplying one bare function name — and the checker enforces it as
`E155`, a check-phase code for what is a scope question.  Refusing is what
removes the flap rather than labelling it: with no pick to make there is no
iteration order left to expose, which a merely deterministic first-wins order
would not have achieved.  The refusal is definition-gated, matching the `E608`
rail it generalises, so an unused clash is still refused and rewriting a call
in module-qualified form does not lift it; a local declaration or a selective
import does, and both are exercised through to their runtime value.

Both layers read one derivation.  `namespace_fn_names` now exposes its
ambiguity per namespace as well as unioned — the checker asks for its own
namespace's clashes, to report at its own import and to keep the name out of
the type environment, and codegen's rail asks the union, which is the question
it has always asked.  An ambiguous name is not injected at all: reporting the
clash while binding one supplier would leave the follow-on diagnostics keyed
to whichever module the injection loop reached first, which is the
nondeterminism the refusal exists to remove.

Spec 8.5.4 gives constructor names the same shadowing rules as function
names, so the data namespaces are folded in rather than left to make that
sentence false.  They flapped the same way — two modules each exporting a
`public data Shape` with different constructor field types type-checked on
hash seeds 2, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and reported `[E213]` on 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
— and the accepting seeds were the worse half: `check` and `verify` both
passed, and the program died at `run` with an `E609` at line 0 of the entry
file naming two modules the entry never imported.  Data types are `E156` and
constructors `E157`, one code per declaration namespace as codegen already
splits E608/E609/E610, and reported independently because two modules
exporting differently-named types can clash on a constructor alone.

Their remedy differs from the function one and the diagnostics say so.
E609/E610 refuse two modules' same-named data declarations by DECLARATION,
consulting neither visibility nor the importer's filter nor local shadowing —
the relaxation E608 received in #1281 has no data-side twin — so narrowing an
import and declaring the type locally were both measured against the fixture
and both still fail at compile.  Marking one declaration `private` fails the
same way.  Those two diagnostics therefore prescribe renaming, and a cell
pins the measurement so the text cannot drift into offering remedies that do
not work; the rail over-breadth behind it is tracked as #1317, with a
KNOWN_ISSUES row and a spec 8.11 limitation entry.

A name the built-in registry already owns is not a clash: the injection loops
are `setdefault` over a `TypeEnv` the built-ins populate first, so a
dependency exporting its own `option_map` never wins the bare name — measured
as `E201` against the prelude's two-argument signature.  The first cut of this
refusal did not pass that snapshot and reported two such dependencies as a
clash, which was a new rejection where the branch point was green.
`namespace_fn_names`' claim that its ambiguity half is identical with or
without the prelude argument was wrong for the same reason; it is corrected to
the measured truth, and the codegen call ordering it rests on is pinned.

The two #1281 cells the checker now catches first drive the shape through
`build_multi_module_past_check` and assert both layers, so the rail behind the
refusal is still exercised.  Five conformance programs cover the two import
orders and the disambiguated form, four more for the data-side pair; the new test file
pins the determinism in fresh subprocesses across four hash seeds, which the
base tree cannot satisfy.  The corpus moves nothing — all 268 pre-existing
programs answer identically on both trees.

Closes #1304

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
**E200's severity, measured rather than relabelled.** The CHANGELOG called the
cascade "W-severity", conflating two things the repo keeps apart: `E200` is an
E-coded diagnostic emitted at `severity="warning"`, which the `--json` envelope
reports in `warnings` rather than `diagnostics` and which does not fail the
check on its own — a program whose only diagnostic is `E200` reports
`ok: true` and exits 0.  The W-series is the separate `W001`/`W002` code
namespace and this is not one of them.  The bullet now says exactly that.

**`E610`'s evidence, gathered on its own axis.**  The #1317 row demonstrated
only the `E609` half while covering both codes.  Measured: `liba` exporting
`public data Alpha { Sq(Int), … }` beside `libb` exporting
`public data Beta { Sq(Bool), … }` — two DIFFERENT types sharing only the
constructor `Sq` — is `[E157]` at check and `[E610]` at compile, and the same
three remedies fail it the same way (narrow the second import, declare a local
`data Own { Sq(Int), … }`, make one supplier `private`: each check-green and
verify-green, each still `[E610]` at `vera compile`).  The row now carries that
beside the `E609` evidence and scopes each claim to its code, and two new cells
pin it — the `E610` backstop for the constructor-only shape, and `private` as a
third parametrised non-escape beside the two the file already had.

**`E608`'s predicate, stated as the code implements it.**  Spec §11.16 and
SKILL.md both said the rails refuse "any two modules in one program", which is
true of `E609`/`E610` and false of `E608` since #1281: `_generics_cannot_collide`
exempts a pair of top-level generics the ownership classification proves land in
distinct clone namespaces, because those emit nothing under the bare name.  Both
now give the declaration-based wording to `E609`/`E610` only and state `E608`'s
own condition — same-named function declarations of any visibility, the ones
that would share the flattened `$name`, minus that exception.

**§8.7.2's environment bullets cover all three namespaces.**  They excluded
ambiguous function names while the next bullet still promised every imported
public data type and constructor entered the environment, which `E156`/`E157`
made false and the M16 structural cell disproves.  The exclusion is now stated
once over all three, including the two ways the data side comes apart: a type
excluded for a clash takes its constructors with it, and a constructor two
differently-named types supply is excluded alone while both types remain.

**TESTING.md's conformance figures reconciled against the manifest oracle.**
The parametrized-suite line said 1,130 where the file collects 1,175, and the
dual-target sentence said 166 run-level programs of which 116 are dual-tested
where the manifest now holds 167 and `TestDualTargetConformance` reports 117
passed beside 50 skipped.  The skip breakdown is unchanged and re-measured
rather than assumed — 43 host-family, 6 with no public zero-argument `main`,
1 nondeterministic — since the one run-level program this branch adds is
dual-tested.  The #1281 row's "all 226 conformance programs" described a revert
experiment run at that corpus size; the figure is dropped rather than restated
as 235, which would claim a re-measurement not taken.

**A crashed CLI no longer reports as an empty-document parse error.**
`_check_json` parsed stdout with `check=False`, so a seed-specific crash — the
exact failure the determinism cells exist to catch — surfaced as a
`JSONDecodeError` about column 1 with the exit code and the whole stderr
discarded.  The parse is split out and raises with the seed, the exit code and
both streams attached; a cell drives the helper at a command that exits 3 with
an empty stdout and a marker on stderr and asserts all three reach the message.
Reverting the handler to the bare `json.loads` fails that cell with the original
`JSONDecodeError`, which is what makes it load-bearing rather than decorative.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
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1436-1439: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cache prelude_adt_names(). prelude_data_decls() caches the parsed mapping, but prelude_adt_names() allocates a new frozenset on every _adt_members_in_scope() call.

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In `@vera/codegen/core.py` around lines 1436 - 1439, Cache the result of
prelude_adt_names() so _adt_members_in_scope() reuses one frozenset instead of
allocating it on every call. Add or use a cached helper/property near the
existing prelude_data_decls() caching, and preserve the current union of
members, infrastructure, built-in ADT names, and prelude ADT names.
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In `@README.md`:
- Line 266: Update the README project statistics to state 238 conformance
programs instead of 229, matching the entry count in
tests/conformance/manifest.json; leave the other metrics unchanged.

In `@SKILL.md`:
- Line 1954: Update the final local-shadowing sentence in the E155–E610
explanation to apply only to functions during checking, and explicitly state
that E609 and E610 still reject colliding data-type and constructor
declarations. Keep the surrounding distinction between checker resolution and
compile-time validation accurate.

In `@spec/08-modules.md`:
- Line 67: Update the design note in spec/08-modules.md to limit
selective-import guidance to function-name collisions with other imports. For
data-type and constructor collisions, direct readers to source renaming,
consistent with sections 8.5.2.2 and 11.16 and diagnostics E609/E610.

In `@tests/conformance/manifest.json`:
- Around line 3403-3415: Update the expected_error for
ch08_ambiguous_import_adt_swapped_rejected to E156 so it matches
ch08_ambiguous_import_adt_rejected and the shared verdict required for both
import orders.

In `@vera/_since.py`:
- Around line 267-269: Update the SINCE mapping entries E155, E156, E157, and
E621 to match the current project release version 0.1.11, unless the project
metadata is intentionally being bumped; keep all version metadata and changelog
references consistent.

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In `@vera/codegen/core.py`:
- Around line 1436-1439: Cache the result of prelude_adt_names() so
_adt_members_in_scope() reuses one frozenset instead of allocating it on every
call. Add or use a cached helper/property near the existing prelude_data_decls()
caching, and preserve the current union of members, infrastructure, built-in ADT
names, and prelude ADT names.
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**The ADT twin pinned one code per order, so half a regression was invisible.**
`ch08_ambiguous_import_adt_rejected` pinned `E156` and its swapped sibling
pinned `E157`, which reads as covering both codes and does not: the runner
asserts only the one code its entry names, so a change that dropped `E156`
while leaving `E157` left the swapped entry green.  Measured — with the
`E156` row deleted from the checker's emission table, the swapped fixture
still reports `['E130', 'E157', 'E313']`, which the old pinning accepts and
the new one refuses.  Both entries now pin `E156`, matching the function pair
(both `E155`), and the fixture comment says why the manifest names one code
where the program raises two.  That both codes fire in both orders stays
asserted, by the unit cells that check the whole diagnostic set.

**SKILL's local-shadowing sentence was true of functions only.**  "Local
definitions shadow imported names without error" is checker resolution, and
`E609`/`E610` reject two modules' same-named data types or constructors at
compile whatever the importer declares — so a local `data` of the same name
does not clear them.  The sentence now says which half it governs.

**Spec §8.3.2's design note pointed data collisions at selective import.**
Same correction one layer up: both mechanisms it describes — the selective
import and the local definition that shadows — address function names, and a
clashing data type or constructor is renamed in a source module instead
(§8.5.2.2, §11.16).

**README's project-status line said 229 conformance programs**, against a
manifest holding 238.  That figure sits outside the doc-counts oracle's
patterns, which is why the gate stayed green over it; verified against the
manifest rather than against another document.

**`prelude_adt_names()` rebuilt its frozenset per namespace.**  Its consumer,
`_adt_members_in_scope`, runs once per namespace, and the answer is a
constant — the prelude blocks are.  Now `lru_cache`d exactly as
`prelude_data_decls()` beneath it, which it derives from.

One finding is deliberately not acted on: `vera/_since.py` records `E155`,
`E156` and `E157` as `0.1.12` while `[project].version` still reads
`0.1.11`.  That is the convention rather than a mismatch — a new code carries
the version it SHIPS in, and the release PR this sprint cuts `0.1.12` and
bumps the version surface then.  `E621`, already merged on this release
branch, carries `0.1.12` identically.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff core.py finding (caching prelude_adt_names): fixed in 7a314b5 — lru_cache(maxsize=1), matching prelude_data_decls directly beneath it, from which it derives; mypy clean.

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@aallan Verified. vera/prelude.py applies @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1) to prelude_adt_names(). The function derives its result from prelude_data_decls() with frozenset(prelude_data_decls()).

The cache is appropriate because the prelude blocks are constant and the returned value is immutable. The finding is addressed.


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Learning: In `vera/prelude.py`, `prelude_adt_names()` derives the immutable set of prelude ADT names from `prelude_data_decls()`. Both functions use `functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1)`. `vera/codegen/core.py::_adt_members_in_scope` consumes `prelude_adt_names()`.

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The qualified effect-op arm obligated two of its three arms.  PR #1325's
review found `_walk_for_nat_binding_obligations`' `QualifiedCall` branch
hand-written as a refined-then-`@Nat` chain with no `@Nat` -> `@Int`
widening case at all, so `State.put(@Nat.0)` and `Exn.throw(@Nat.0)` into
an `@Int` cell recorded NO obligation whatever — while codegen emitted the
widening guard on both spellings, the qualified forms synthesizing a bare
node and delegating to the dispatcher that emits it.  A guard the
obligation stream never mentions is the mirror image of the claim without a
guard this issue started from: `verify --json` is the only place a reader
sees either.  Measured as a differential before the fix — bare
`nat_to_int_coerce tier3` against qualified `[]`, for both ops — with the
guard confirmed present in the emitted WAT of all four.  The arm now routes
through the shared `_obligate_binding_triple`, so the three arms cannot
drift apart again by omission, and the two spellings of one operation
record identical statuses.

The TESTING.md pytest-invocation comment kept #1318's `1,190` while the
union updated 238 to 239 entries; collection says 1,195, which is what the
oracle-gated row three hundred lines above already said.

The review's rooting finding is REFUTED, and the evidence is recorded in
the report rather than in code: its premise is that the pair payload
pointer "exists only in `ptr_local`", which the emitted WAT contradicts —
a parameter payload is shadow-pushed by the GC prologue before any body
code, and a freshly allocated one is pushed at its own `$alloc` site, with
`$gc_sp` lowered only in the function epilogue, after the throw.  The
collector is mark-sweep and never moves objects, so a second root of the
same pointer value would add nothing: rooting decides liveness, and
liveness is already established by the producer's push.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
aallan added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2026
The qualified effect-op arm obligated two of its three arms.  PR #1325's
review found `_walk_for_nat_binding_obligations`' `QualifiedCall` branch
hand-written as a refined-then-`@Nat` chain with no `@Nat` -> `@Int`
widening case at all, so `State.put(@Nat.0)` and `Exn.throw(@Nat.0)` into
an `@Int` cell recorded NO obligation whatever — while codegen emitted the
widening guard on both spellings, the qualified forms synthesizing a bare
node and delegating to the dispatcher that emits it.  A guard the
obligation stream never mentions is the mirror image of the claim without a
guard this issue started from: `verify --json` is the only place a reader
sees either.  Measured as a differential before the fix — bare
`nat_to_int_coerce tier3` against qualified `[]`, for both ops — with the
guard confirmed present in the emitted WAT of all four.  The arm now routes
through the shared `_obligate_binding_triple`, so the three arms cannot
drift apart again by omission, and the two spellings of one operation
record identical statuses.

The TESTING.md pytest-invocation comment kept #1318's `1,190` while the
union updated 238 to 239 entries; collection says 1,195, which is what the
oracle-gated row three hundred lines above already said.

The review's rooting finding is REFUTED, and the evidence is recorded in
the report rather than in code: its premise is that the pair payload
pointer "exists only in `ptr_local`", which the emitted WAT contradicts —
a parameter payload is shadow-pushed by the GC prologue before any body
code, and a freshly allocated one is pushed at its own `$alloc` site, with
`$gc_sp` lowered only in the function epilogue, after the throw.  The
collector is mark-sweep and never moves objects, so a second root of the
same pointer value would add nothing: rooting decides liveness, and
liveness is already established by the producer's push.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
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