Key constructor layouts per owning ADT, so a user constructor cannot displace a prelude one - #1419
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe compiler now preserves constructor ownership, rejects sibling constructor collisions with E159, and resolves WebAssembly and SMT layouts by owning ADT. Tests, conformance cases, specifications, and project counts are updated. ChangesConstructor ownership and shadowing
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showorhashrenders a parameterisedConstructorCall, nested recovery reads_ctor_layouts[arg.name]. This flat map can contain another ADT’s layout after a same-named constructor collision. The recovery can then emit incorrect generic type information. Read_adt_ctor_layouts[adt_name][arg.name]first, with the flat map as a fallback.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Adversarial review — PR #1419 at 5ce278b4
Reviewed in a fresh worktree of the PR head against origin/release/v0.2.0 (f23db8f7), every run prefixed with a vera.__file__ canary. Everything the PR body claims about its gates, its differential and its corpus scan reproduces exactly — including the corpus scan's conclusion, which I rebuilt independently and which caught a second instrument hole on the way. The fix is real and it removes an out-of-bounds memory trap. It is also narrower than the claim, and the fixtures cannot tell the difference.
The measured conclusion: the fix converts the reader and leaves the writer keyed by bare name. The compiler-emitted Less is allocated and tagged through the user's ADT and rendered through Ordering's, so the two agree only when the shadowing constructor sits at the tag its prelude namesake has. Every fixture in this PR puts it at index 0, which is exactly that tag. Move it one place and #1414's headline symptom is back on a check-clean, verify-clean program.
Findings
| # | Sev | What | Evidence | Repro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Critical | Only the reader was converted. NullaryConstructor.owner is consulted at exactly one site, vera/wasm/inference.py:1072. The layout and tag for the compiler-emitted Less / Equal / Greater are still chosen by bare name at vera/wasm/data.py:43 (_translate_nullary_constructor: layout = self._ctor_layouts.get(expr.name)) — the clobbered flat table — and vera/wasm/data.py:71 does the same for ConstructorCall, which has no owner field at all (harmless today, since every such node is checker-resolved — but it is the other half of the same key). So with any shadowing Less not at constructor index 0, show(compare(1, 2)) is wrong on a program vera check and vera verify both call clean. |
WAT proof: in $lt the i64.lt_s true branch emits i32.const 1 / i32.store — ZzBox.Less's tag — where Ordering.Less is tag 0. Full matrix below. |
R1 |
| 2 | Critical | Soundness consequence: two distinct Ordering values compare equal, because both carry tag 1. Unclosed rather than introduced (base does the same), but it is the same root and this PR is where it was meant to close. |
eq(compare(1, 2), compare(2, 2)) returns 1; the control returns 0. vera check and vera verify both clean, exit 0. |
R2 |
| 3 | High | The PR adds a normative sentence to spec §8.4.1 asserting a guarantee the compiler does not keep: "a declaration that takes one does not change what the prelude's constructor of that name means — constructor layouts are keyed per owning data type, so the two coexist (a data ZzBox { Less(Bool) } leaves Ordering's Less rendering as Less)." R1 is a counterexample; the parenthetical is precisely the index-0 case that happens to work. |
git diff origin/release/v0.2.0...HEAD -- spec/08-modules.md |
R1 |
| 4 | High | The verifier's compare desugaring was not converted. vera/smt.py:1629-1665 _desugar_compare emits bare Less / Equal / Greater with no owner; owner is read nowhere in smt.py, which keeps its own flat _ctor_to_adt (:498, :689, :2840, :3009, :3225). Its docstring — "Mirrors codegen's Pass 1.6 exactly (#874) … so the verifier reasons over the SAME term the runtime produces" — is now false: codegen's term carries owner="Ordering", the verifier's does not. There are two desugarings emitting three Ordering references each; the PR body says "the three", and converted one set. Effect: an unused declaration turns a statically refuted postcondition into a Tier-3 demote with vera verify exiting 0. Pre-existing at base, but squarely inside this PR's stated scope. |
Without the data block: [E500] Postcondition does not hold + counterexample, exit 120. With it: [E523] warning, OK … 1 verified (Tier 1), 2 runtime checks (Tier 3), exit 0. |
R3 |
| 5 | Medium | Partial regression, so the change should not be scored as a pure improvement: on two shapes the lt cell was correct at release/v0.2.0 and is wrong here. At base the value was rendered through the same (user) plan set that tagged it, so a nullary user Less came out Less by luck; head renders through Ordering's plans while still writing the user's tag, and the luck is gone. (Head is better on the other two cells of those shapes, and it removes a base out-of-bounds trap — see "What checks out".) |
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less }: base lt=Less, head lt=Equal. ZzBox { A(Bool), B(Bool), C(Bool), Less }: base lt=Less, head lt=Greater. |
R1 |
| 6 | Medium | vera/wasm/operators.py:823-829 (_generate_adt_eq_fn_body, the derived $eq_<Type> helper) is textually the pre-fix pattern the PR just removed from calls_handlers.py: (ctor_name, self._ctor_layouts[ctor_name]) for ctor_name, parent in self._ctor_to_adt.items() if parent == base …. The body describes _composite_ctor_plans as "the derivation behind show and structural Eq", but this helper does not go through it. Because _ctor_to_adt is flat, a collision drops the shadowed constructor out of base's list; when that empties the list the next statement is raise CodegenInvariantError("ADT equality on a type with no constructors"), a # pragma: no cover line. I found no executable route to the raise — every reachable shadow of a field-bearing prelude constructor is refused at check — so this is a surviving instance of the class rather than a demonstrated failure, but it is untouched and uncovered by the new cells. |
sed -n '823,829p' vera/wasm/operators.py |
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| 7 | Medium | The PR's premise — "the checker already refuses the ambiguous cases (E213 / E215 / E121)" — does not hold for two user ADTs in one file. There is no E-code: the declarations are accepted with zero diagnostics and the first ADT silently becomes uninhabitable. That is the shape #1408's own CHANGELOG bullet describes for Tuple ("the declared constructor unreachable in both positions … Pair was uninhabitable") and closed with an error. Cross-module the rail exists (E610, vera/codegen/modules.py:577-586); within one file there is none. |
vera check → OK, exit 0. Using the name then reports E213 + E121 naming the other type. |
R4 |
| 8 | Low | The env.constructors carry-over from the #1404 round ships untested. I mutated the new continue at vera/checker/registration.py:1002 to pass, purged __pycache__, and ran the full suite plus conformance: the mutant survives, so nothing measures the change. Also asymmetric — the sibling refusal _check_reserved_decl_name (E154, a Vera-prefixed constructor) does not continue, so a name the checker just rejected in that namespace still lands in env.constructors, against the argument the new comment makes. |
Mutant run identical to the clean one. | — |
| 9 | Low | The flat fallback the PR adds to _composite_ctor_plans (vera/wasm/calls_handlers.py:627-635) is unreachable. ctor_layouts/ctor_to_adt and adt_ctor_layouts are built from the same self._adt_layouts at the same two sites (functions.py:436/458, closures.py:318/327), so self._adt_ctor_layouts.get(base) is non-empty exactly when the flat filter would find anything. The comment ("the fallback for a namespace whose layouts were not threaded") describes a state neither production WasmContext( site can produce. Pin it or drop it. Related: the per-owner projection the PR adds is the third copy of one expression — CompileResult.adt_layouts at vera/codegen/core.py:2744 is already {name: dict(ctors) for name, ctors in self._adt_layouts.items()} and has been since #845, and _server_adt_layouts already reads it per owner (result.adt_layouts["Request"]["Request"], with a shape tripwire). Three copies now drift independently. |
grep -rn "WasmContext(" vera/ → two production sites, both threading adt_ctor_layouts. |
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R1 — the writer is still keyed by name
private data ZzBox {
Pad(Bool),
Less
}
public fn lt(-> @String)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
show(compare(1, 2))
}
plus gt / eqq on compare(2, 1) / compare(2, 2). vera check → OK, vera verify → OK, on every row below.
Correct answers are Less / Greater / Equal.
| declaration in the file | head lt/gt/eqq |
base lt/gt/eqq |
|---|---|---|
| (none — control) | Less Greater Equal |
same |
ZzBox { Less(Bool) } — every fixture in this PR |
Less Greater Equal |
Less(false) ×3 |
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less } |
Equal Greater Equal |
Less Less Less |
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less(Bool) } |
Equal Greater Equal |
Less(false) ×3 |
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less(Bool, Int, String) } |
Equal Greater Equal |
Less(false, 0, ), then two out-of-bounds memory access traps |
ZzBox { A(Bool), B(Bool), C(Bool), Less } |
Greater Greater Equal |
Less C(false) B(false) |
Identical under VERA_EAGER_GC=1. The last row shows the reader has no tag-range guard either: tag 3 is outside Ordering's 0-2 and falls through to the last plan.
It is every Ord instance, not just Int. In one file under ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less }, head returns Equal for show(compare(1, 2)), show(compare("a", "b")) and show(compare(1.0, 2.0)) alike (control: Less for all three).
Why the PR's own artefacts cannot see this. The three new cells, tests/conformance/ch09_user_ctor_shadows_prelude_ctor.vera, the issue's repro and the CHANGELOG's all declare Less as constructor index 0 of ZzBox — which is Ordering.Less's tag. The wrong writer and the right reader agree on that one tag, so the fixtures are green whether or not the writer was fixed. My rerun of the corpus scan prints the tag index for every hit; the new fixture is (ZzBox, Less, index 0). Inserting a Pad(Bool) ahead of Less in that fixture makes it fail at head. That is the cell this PR is missing.
R2 — Less == Equal
private data ZzBox {
Pad(Bool),
Less
}
public fn less_eq_equal(-> @Bool)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
eq(compare(1, 2), compare(2, 2))
}
head 1, control 0. vera check and vera verify both exit 0 with no diagnostics. ZzBox is never used.
The derived Hash agrees with the broken Eq rather than contradicting it, so nothing downstream can catch the collision: in the same file hash(compare(1, 2)) and hash(compare(2, 2)) both return -5808592057526012372, where the control returns -5808590958014384161 and -5808592057526012372.
R3 — a refuted postcondition becomes Tier 3
private data ZzBox {
Pad(Bool),
Less
}
public fn ident(@Int -> @Int)
requires(@Int.0 < 100)
ensures(compare(@Int.result, @Int.0 + 1) == compare(@Int.0, @Int.0))
effects(pure)
{
@Int.0
}
Delete the data block: [E500] Postcondition does not hold in function 'ident' with a counterexample, exit 120. Keep it: [E523] warning and OK … 1 verified (Tier 1), 2 runtime checks (Tier 3), exit 0.
R4 — two user ADTs, no rail
private data AaBox {
Dup(Bool)
}
private data BbBox {
Pad(Bool),
Dup(Int)
}
public fn probe(@Int -> @Int)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
@Int.0
}
vera check → OK, exit 0. Adding public fn mk_a(-> @AaBox) … { Dup(true) } then reports E213 (field 0 has type Bool, expected Int) and E121 (body has type BbBox, expected AaBox): AaBox's own constructor is gone, with nothing said at the declaration that took it.
What checks out
- RED-FIRST. The PR's
tests/test_name_resolution_spine_1316.pyrun against basevera/:test_an_unrelated_declaration_does_not_change_what_compare_returns,test_a_colliding_declaration_does_not_drop_the_functionandtest_the_user_constructor_still_works_on_its_own_typeall fail for #1414's reason (assert 'Less(false)' == 'Less'; the E602 degrade). The control cell is green at both revisions, as the body says. All four pass at head. - It closes a real memory trap. At base,
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less(Bool, Int, String) }besideshow(compare(2, 1))is an out-of-bounds memory access at run: the reader walkedOrdering's tag-2 value through the user's three-field plan. Head returns a wrong string instead. That is a genuine improvement the PR body does not claim. - The scan. Rebuilt independently with the
TopLevelDeclunwrap and validated against the known positive before trusting the negative — and it caught one more instrument hole:CodeGenerator()does not populate_adt_layoutsin__init__, so the obvious version compares against an empty built-in name set and reports zero hits with no error. With_register_builtin_adts()called: 301 files, 67DataDecls, 0 parse failures, 23 built-in constructor names, 4 hits —examples/vera/collections.veraOption/None(index 0) andOption/Some(index 1), tags identical to the prelude's, the §11.16 restatement — plus the two deliberate fixtures. The measurement refuting a wider reservation holds, and DESIGN principle 4 does point away from a name-based fix. - Corpus WAT differential vs
origin/release/v0.2.0: 1 mover, the new conformance program,bcc3e48e979f57,662 B →b74e54b66ec647,930 B. 253 identical, 47 compiled at neither revision. vera runoutput differential over all 43 examples, base vs head, comparing output and exit code per program: 0 movers.- Gates at head.
pytest tests/12,946 passed / 186 skipped / 26 deselected ·mypy vera/clean (105 files) ·ruff check .·ruff check --select S vera/·check_conformance.py251, and 251 again underVERA_EAGER_GC=1·check_examples.py43 ·check_examples_run.py·check_corpus_canonical.py301 ·check_doc_counts.py13,158 tests / 198 files / 251 conformance / 43 examples — all four claimed numbers confirmed ·check_site_assets.py·check_limitations_sync.py·check_explicit_encoding.py·check_diagnostic_fields.py·check_version_sync.py·check_skill_examples.py·check_editor_grammars.py·check_doc_builtin_shadowing.py·VERA_JS_COVERAGE=1 pytest tests/test_browser.py424 passed. - No memory-safety read survives at head. Every user-written constructor, pattern and destructure site in
vera/wasm/data.pyis guarded at check before it reaches the by-name layout: aUrlParts(a,b,c,d,e)pattern under aZzBox { UrlParts(Bool) }shadow is E314 + E321, the same as a call is E212;Some/Ok/Errare E121 / E213 / E314; a match arm of a shadowed nullary is E314;== Lessis E215 + E142; exhaustiveness on the user ADT correctly names the shadowing constructor (E311). The remaining exposure is the compiler's own nullaryOrderingreferences, where the user layout'stotal_sizeis also 8, so only the tag is wrong. - #1404 carry-overs. Cell renamed to
..._is_not_E158; bothSKILL.mdanddocs/SKILL.mdsay the reservation covers both namespaces; theenv.constructorscontinueis present (finding 8 is that nothing measures it). CHANGELOG bullet present;Fixes #1414on its own line.closingIssuesReferencesis empty, but that is uniform for release-branch PRs here — #1409 reads the same — because GitHub records them only against the default branch.
#1409 (fix/1317-per-owner-adt-identity) composition
Different strategies over overlapping ground. #1409 renames a contended module ADT and its constructors to mod$<path>$<Name> so the flat maps stop colliding, unmangling on the way out through a new compile_program wrapper; #1419 keeps the names and adds a parallel per-owner map that each reader must be converted to consult. Neither subsumes the other: #1409 excludes builtin_adt_names and covers module-vs-module pairs, while #1419's ground is the entry-file-vs-prelude pair, which renaming cannot reach because the prelude's name is what the program means.
- Textual. No conflict in
vera/codegen/core.py: #1409 edits__init__(~410) and addscompile_program/_unmangle_adt_names(~1819); #1419 edits thecomparedesugaring (~3496). Disjoint elsewhere invera/too. Conflicts are certain in the doc set both touch —CHANGELOG.md,README.md,FAQ.md,ROADMAP.md,SKILL.md,docs/SKILL.md,TESTING.md,vera/README.md,docs/llms-full.txt(both move the same13,141/250headline counts) and the same §8.4.1 paragraph inspec/08-modules.md. #1409 also editsscripts/check_doc_counts.pyandtests/test_check_doc_counts.py. - Semantic. They compose.
_composite_ctor_planskeys on the base type name, which is the mangled name after #1409's rename, and_adt_ctor_layoutsis built from the same_adt_layoutsthe rename writes. Worth noting the asymmetry: #1409's approach fixes the writer for free on the pairs it covers, because distinct keys leave nothing to clobber. That is the structural argument for why #1419's approach obliges every reader to be converted — and one has been. - Order. No merge-order constraint from the code. Whichever lands second rebases and re-runs
check_doc_counts.py.
What would close this
- Give constructor lowering the owner:
vera/wasm/data.py:43and:71should readself._adt_ctor_layouts[owner][name]when the owner is known, which needsowneronConstructorCallas well. That one change retires R1 and R2. - Carry
ownerinvera/smt.py:_desugar_compareand makesmt.py'sNullaryConstructorhandler (:3225) read it, or the two desugarings stay desynchronised and the "mirrors codegen exactly" docstring stays false. - Re-cut
tests/conformance/ch09_user_ctor_shadows_prelude_ctor.veraand the three new cells with the shadowing constructor off index 0 so they distinguish reader from writer, and add theeq(compare(1, 2), compare(2, 2))cell. - Convert
vera/wasm/operators.py:823-829, or say in the code why the$eq_<Type>helper does not need it. - Hold the spec §8.4.1 sentence until (1) lands.
- Finding 7 reads like its own tracker (a
bug-labelled entry in the KNOWN_ISSUES table, since it is a silent wrong acceptance rather than a roadmap item). Findings 8 and 9 are small enough to fold in here.
VERDICT: OPEN — 9 findings
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reason the rule was not yet load-bearing everywhere.
MAJOR: `verify()` is a public entry point, and its "must already have passed
type checking" precondition is a library caller's to keep. Called directly on
a program the checker refuses, it still did not come back within 60 s — the
rule protected the CLI path and nothing else, because the datatype-group
closure has no fixed point for a non-regular type however it arrives. The
rule now lives in `vera/regularity.py` and BOTH consumers ask it: the checker
refuses the declaration, the SMT layer declines to model it. The same program
returns in 0.2 s, by the rule rather than by any bound on how far the walk may
go. A structural cell asserts neither consumer carries its own copy, because
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The remedy named the wrong type for a MUTUAL pair: `data A<T> { CA(B<Option<T>>) }`
is refused at the `B<Option<T>>` occurrence, so the fix must say `B<T>` —
suggesting `A<T>` sends the reader to a declaration that is not at fault.
`first_irregular_occurrence` is typed `AdtType | None` so the offending head is
available to say so.
Renumbered E159 -> E129: Stream T's #1419 is further along and registers E159
for #1425. E160 is not free (`Array index must be Int or Nat`), and E129 is
the better home anyway — it is the gap at the end of the E120-E128
data-declaration well-formedness block, whose E120 is `Data invariant not
Bool`. Moved in sort position in errors.py and _since.py rather than left in
the E158 slot, and renumbered in the spec, the manifest, the fixture header,
the negative-fixture lists (whose name/code pairing is positional) and the
docs.
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Adversarial re-review — PR #1419 at 79c392c9
Re-run in a fresh worktree of the new head against its base 35ff4def, canary printed before every command.
All nine findings from the previous round are closed, and the headline is closed convincingly: the writer conversion holds across every tag position I could construct, not only the index-0 one the old fixtures used. Two new findings, one of them introduced by this round.
Round-1 findings — disposition
| # | Round-1 finding | Now | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Critical — writer still keyed by name; show(compare(…)) wrong off index 0 |
Closed | Matrix below: six shadow shapes × compare on Int / String / Float64, plus eq and hash of the results — every cell equals the control, hashes byte-identical, same under VERA_EAGER_GC=1. _owned_ctor_layout is a real single door and _translate_nullary_constructor goes through it. |
| 2 | Critical — Less == Equal returns true |
Closed | eq(compare(1,2), compare(2,2)) = 0 on every shape; hash(compare(1,2)) ≠ hash(compare(2,2)) on every shape. |
| 3 | High — spec §8.4.1 asserts a guarantee not delivered | Closed on the prelude axis | Measured true now, including a repro this PR does not claim: at base, private data Mine { Pad(Bool), Some(Bool) } made show(json_as_int(JNumber(42.7))) return None; at head it returns Some(42), matching the control. Holds with the shadow at index 2 as well. (The imported half of the sentence is finding A.) |
| 4 | High — verifier's _desugar_compare not converted; refuted postcondition demoted |
Closed, both directions | Refuted case: base ok=true, tier3_runtime=2, no diagnostics; head ok=false, E500, status violated — identical to the control. And the provable case now discharges at Tier 1 (tier1=2, all verified) where base demoted it to Tier 3. Completeness recovered, not just reporting. |
| 5 | Medium — partial regression vs base on two shapes | Moot | Subsumed by 1; head now matches the control on both. |
| 6 | Medium — operators.py Eq enumeration untouched |
Closed | Converted to the per-owner table. See finding E on the justification's third leg. |
| 7 | Medium — two user ADTs in one file may share a constructor name, no E-code | Closed | New E159 (#1425). Order-independent (names the first-registered declaration in either order). Alias namespace untouched (type Sq = Int; beside data A1 { Sq(Int) } is clean; E159 still fires with an alias present). Both legal shapes preserved: the prelude restatement (public data Option<T> { None, Some(T) }) and the imported-constructor shadow are check-clean. Two modules supplying one constructor name still hits the older E157. |
| 8 | Low — env.constructors carry-over untested |
Closed | Ownership cell added at tests/test_name_resolution_spine_1316.py:991, asserting on checker.env.constructors.get(name). |
| 9 | Low — unreachable fallback, third copy of the projection | Closed | Both flat fallbacks removed; adt_ctor_layouts=self._adt_layouts is now the live map at both WasmContext( sites, so there is no third copy to drift. |
The matrix (all rows check-clean and verify-clean; control = no shadowing declaration):
| shadow declared in the file | compare Int/String/Float64 |
eq(Less,Equal) |
hash(Less)/hash(Equal)/hash(Greater) |
|---|---|---|---|
| (control) | Less Greater Equal ×3 |
0 |
distinct |
ZzBox { Less(Bool) } |
= control | 0 |
= control |
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less } |
= control | 0 |
= control |
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less(Bool) } |
= control | 0 |
= control |
ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less(Bool, Int, String) } |
= control | 0 |
= control |
ZzBox { A(Bool), B(Bool), C(Bool), Less } (tag 3, out of range) |
= control | 0 |
= control |
public data ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Greater, Less, Equal } (all three, shifted) |
= control | 0 |
= control |
| three separate ADTs taking one name each | = control | 0 |
= control |
The last two rows are new shapes, not ones the PR's cells cover. The base out-of-bounds trap I reported last round (Less(Bool, Int, String) beside show(compare(2, 1))) is gone as well.
New findings
| # | Sev | What | Evidence | Repro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | High | The imported-constructor shadow — the one collision shape E159 deliberately leaves legal — is still miscompiled, in four observable ways. The exemption reason on vera/wasm/data.py:78 ("a parsed constructor call the checker already resolved") and the five pattern markers ("checker-resolved") are true within one namespace only: the checker resolved the module's Sq in the module's namespace, while codegen's _ctor_layouts is one flat map across every absorbed namespace and the entry file's declaration wins the slot. Pre-existing at 35ff4def (measured identical), so not introduced — but this round's new user-facing text asserts its safety: E159's fix line says "A constructor of an IMPORTED or prelude type may still be shadowed", and the new spec §8.4 sentence says "shadowing a prelude or an imported constructor is not that shape and stays legal". The prelude half is now true; the imported half is not. |
WAT: $mk_sq emits i32.const 1 / i32.store where Shape.Sq is tag 0 — the entry file's Mine.Sq tag. Mitigation: a Tier-3 postcondition guard does trap when a contract pins the value; it is silent under ensures(true). |
R-A |
| B | Medium | New ICE on a program §8.4.1 permits. _owned_ctor_layout raises CodegenInvariantError when an owner-stamped reference names a constructor its owner does not declare — and a user redeclaration of Ordering reaches it. vera check and vera verify are clean; vera compile prints "Internal compiler error while compiling 'probe': constructor 'Less' stamped with owner 'Ordering', which does not declare it … the type checker should have rejected the input before it reached this point. Please file a bug report." At 35ff4def the same program degrades cleanly instead (E602-class, function dropped, no ICE). The "instrumented … reached zero times" evidence is true of the corpus but did not look for a legal user program. Either the checker refuses the redeclaration, or the door degrades to CodegenSkip as the pre-fix path did. |
Also fires on a partial redeclaration data Ordering { Less, Equal } — the raise names Greater. A same-name-different-arity redeclaration (Ordering { Less(Bool), Equal, Greater }) compiles and renders Less(false) at head and base alike. |
R-B |
| C | Low | Rail scope. The AST walk covers exactly one attribute, _ctor_layouts, in seven files. It does not cover _ctor_to_adt (still flat, read at vera/wasm/operators.py:440, vera/wasm/inference.py:1503, and throughout vera/smt.py), _ctor_adt_tp_indices (flat, eight reads), or any of vera/codegen/ — where monomorphize.py:228-231 builds its own flat ctor_to_adt across every ADT for instantiation discovery. vera/smt.py is listed in _FILES but has zero _ctor_layouts accesses, so its inclusion is vacuous for this rail. _ALLOWED_FUNCTIONS matches __init__ by name in any of the seven files rather than WasmContext.__init__ specifically; no live hole today (only WasmContext.__init__ and SmtContext.__init__ exist, and the latter has no such access), but it is a name match, not a target. |
Mutation-validated as claimed: stripping one of the three identical markers turns test_every_bare_lookup_is_the_door_or_annotated red and names the exact site (vera/wasm/data.py, 842, _translate_match_condition). The non-vacuity cell asserts ≥12 accesses and that the door still exists. |
— |
| D | Low | Two policies for one condition. _owned_ctor_layout raises when an owner-stamped name is absent from its owner's table (finding B), but vera/wasm/calls_handlers.py:481 silently re-resolves by bare name in the same situation: (own or {}).get(arg.name) or self._ctor_layouts.get(arg.name). If re-resolving by bare name is the defect, it should not be the fallback there either; if it is acceptable there, the door should not raise. |
Read the two sites. | — |
| E | Low | The operators.py justification's third leg is too strong. It asserts the shadow that would observe flat-vs-owner "is unbuildable under E159/E213". It is buildable, through an import — R-A's program is exactly that shadow and its == is wrong. The enumeration is not the site at fault there (no $eq_ helper is generated for that shape; the tag is), so the conclusion — that the branch is latent under current coverage — survives; the stated reason does not. The conversion itself is right and I would keep it. |
vera compile --wat on the R-A program: zero $eq_ helpers. |
R-A |
R-A — the imported-constructor shadow
s3lib.vera:
module s3lib;
public data Shape {
Sq(Int),
Circ(Int)
}
public fn mk_sq(@Int -> @Shape)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
Sq(@Int.0)
}
public fn mk_circ(@Int -> @Shape)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
Circ(@Int.0)
}
public fn area_tag(@Shape -> @Int)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
match @Shape.0 {
Sq(@Int) -> 100 + @Int.0,
Circ(@Int) -> 200 + @Int.0
}
}
s3main.vera — the shadowing declaration is never used:
import s3lib;
private data Mine {
Pad(Bool),
Sq(Bool)
}
public fn tag_of_circ(-> @Int)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
s3lib::area_tag(s3lib::mk_circ(7))
}
vera check → OK, vera verify → OK. Four faces, head and 35ff4def identical:
| observation | with Mine |
control |
|---|---|---|
show(s3lib::mk_sq(7)) |
Circ(7) |
Sq(7) |
s3lib::area_tag(s3lib::mk_circ(7)) — the module's own match |
107 |
207 |
s3lib::mk_sq(7) == s3lib::mk_circ(7) |
1 |
0 |
hash(mk_sq(7)) == hash(mk_circ(7)) |
1 |
0 |
And with differing field types (Shape { Sq(Int), Circ(String) }), a type-confused read of the string pool rather than a wrong label — show(s3lib::mk_sq(7)) renders Circ(Sq()Cir) at head (Circ(Circ() at base), the integer 7 read as a String i32_pair. Check-clean and verify-clean on both.
Not a regression, and arguably #1317 / PR #1409's ground rather than #1414's. The reason it belongs in this review is that this round's diff is where the language starts promising the shape is safe.
R-B — the new ICE
public data Ordering {
Lt,
Eq,
Gt
}
public fn probe(-> @String)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
show(compare(1, 2))
}
vera check → OK (§8.4.1: the prelude's data types are ordinary declarations a program may shadow). vera compile at head → Internal compiler error … Please file a bug report, exit 1. At 35ff4def → [E602]-class skip, the function dropped with a diagnostic, exit 1, no ICE. data Ordering { Less, Equal } behaves the same way, raising on Greater.
Gates and instruments, all re-run at 79c392c9
pytest tests/13,146 passed / 188 skipped / 26 deselected, exit 0 ·mypy vera/clean (105 files) ·ruff check .·ruff check --select S vera/check_conformance.py252, and 252 again underVERA_EAGER_GC=1·check_examples.py43 ·check_examples_run.py·check_corpus_canonical.py302 ·check_doc_counts.py13,360 collected / 199 files / 252 conformance / 43 examples ·check_site_assets.py·check_limitations_sync.py·check_explicit_encoding.py·check_diagnostic_fields.py·check_version_sync.py·check_skill_examples.py·check_editor_grammars.py·check_doc_builtin_shadowing.pyVERA_JS_COVERAGE=1 pytest tests/test_browser.py424 passed- Corpus differential vs
35ff4def: 2 movers, both explained —tests/conformance/ch08_sibling_ctor_collision_rejected.vera(compiled at base, now correctly[E159]) andtests/conformance/ch09_user_ctor_shadows_prelude_ctor.vera(WATbcc3e48e979f57,662 B →b74e54b66ec647,930 B). 253 identical, 47 compiled at neither. No pre-existing program moved, so E159 refuses nothing the corpus previously accepted. - Corpus scan rebuilt independently with the
TopLevelDeclunwrap and self-validated against the known positive before trusting the negative: 302 files, 69DataDecls, 0 parse failures, 23 built-in constructor names, 4 hits —examples/vera/collections.veraOption/None(index 0) andOption/Some(index 1), plus the two deliberate fixtures. - SKILL wording confirmed in both copies (
SKILL.md:501,docs/SKILL.md:496).
Suggested disposition
The headline defect is closed and the evidence for it is now the right shape — the fixtures no longer coincide with the tag they are testing. Blocking work is small:
- B is the only thing this round introduces and it is a two-line call: either refuse a redeclaration of a special-cased-desugaring ADT at check, or have the door return
None(→ the existingCodegenSkip) instead of raising. Shipping "please file a bug report" for a program §8.4.1 explicitly permits is worse than the degrade it replaced. - A does not need fixing here, but the two new sentences should not claim it. Narrow E159's fix text and the spec §8.4 sentence to the prelude half, which is now true and measured, and let the imported half point at #1317. Correcting the five
checker-resolvedexemption reasons to say "within one namespace" would keep the rail honest about what it is clearing. - C, D, E are notes; D and E are one-line comment edits.
VERDICT: OPEN — 5 findings (1 high, 1 medium, 3 low); all 9 round-1 findings closed
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`data Nest<T> { N(Nest<Option<T>>), Z }` grows its type argument at every
level, so the instantiation chain `Nest<Int>` -> `Nest<Option<Int>>` ->
`Nest<Option<Option<Int>>>` never repeats and the type has no finite set of
instantiations. Three consumers broke on that, in three different ways, which
is what settles where the rule belongs:
* `vera verify` produced no verdict for 67-76 s and then an internal-compiler
`E699`, because the datatype-group closure has no fixed point to reach;
* `==` over such a value recursed the CHECKER into a `RecursionError` — an
`E699` before verification was reached at all, so "check accepts it" was
only ever true of the exact repro; and
* the SMT sort key doubles in SIZE per level for `Ne<Tuple<T, T>>`, where the
instantiation count stays small.
New E129: a recursive occurrence — of the type itself, or of any type mutually
recursive with it — must instantiate that type at the declaration's own type
parameters, in order. It is about the ARGUMENTS, not the name, so a
permutation is non-regular and so is an occurrence reached through a carrier's
type argument. Stating the rule at the declaration closes all three at once.
The rule lives in `vera/regularity.py` because TWO consumers ask it. The
checker refuses the declaration. The SMT layer declines to MODEL it, because
`verify()` is a public entry point whose "must already have passed type
checking" precondition is a library caller's to keep — measured when it is
not, `verify()` called directly on a check-refused program did not come back
within 60 s. It returns in 0.2 s now, by the RULE rather than by any bound on
how far the walk may go, and a structural cell asserts neither consumer
carries its own copy: the symptom of a second copy is silence, one refusing
what the other models.
A member-count bound was implemented first and is the wrong instrument on
every count the review measured. It is a cliff rather than a rule, and a
silent one — the 258th member changed a verdict with no diagnostic. Nothing
constrained its constant: set to 1, the whole suite stayed green. It never
fires for the `Tuple<T, T>` shape, whose key doubles in size while the count
stays small. And it demoted legitimate code: a 13-line `data R<A, B, C, D, E>`
whose constructor permutes its parameters reaches 610 members and loses a
Tier-1 proof it verifies in 0.3 s without the bound. DESIGN §0.2 — explicit
and decidable in preference to a silent cliff — settles it, so the bound is
removed rather than tuned and a cell asserts it stays removed.
Five irregular shapes are refused, one per reason: grows-by-a-layer,
doubles-in-size, MUTUAL (neither declaration mentions its own name
irregularly, so a per-declaration test passes both halves), through a
carrier's type argument, and permuting. Four regular controls are untouched
and still verify at Tier 1: self-recursion, a mutually recursive pair, a
branching tree, and an occurrence reached through a carrier at its own
parameters. Across examples/, tests/conformance/ and the probe corpus — 474
programs — zero are refused. Cells carry a subprocess timeout, because the
failure being fixed is the absence of an answer, and the prompt-refusal cells
assert the CODE rather than a non-zero exit, since the E699 they replace is
also non-zero. For a mutual pair the remedy names the OFFENDING type
(`B<T>`), not the declaration under inspection.
E129 rather than E159: Stream T's #1419 is further along and registers E159
for #1425. E160 is not free (`Array index must be Int or Nat`), and E129 is
the better home anyway — the gap at the end of the E120-E128 data-declaration
well-formedness block, whose E120 is `Data invariant not Bool`.
Registered in errors.py and _since.py at 0.2.0 (in sort position), spec §2.4
as ADT rule 4, the conformance manifest with a negative fixture, and the
enumerated negative-fixture lists in AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and TESTING.md,
whose name/code pairing is positional and re-checked here (44 names, 44
codes, `ch02_nonregular_data_rejected` -> E129).
Also restores one row #1435's own rebase dropped. TESTING.md's contract-
verification row read `411 of 533 (77.1%)` while `test_verifier_adt_decreases`
asserts 413 / 535 — the correction was made in #1435, then reverted when that
PR's rebase resolved a conflicted TESTING.md hunk to the tip's side.
Re-measured here across all 43 examples before restoring: 413 Tier-1, 122
Tier-3, 535 total, 0 unguarded, 77.2%. An audit of the rest of #1435's
reviewed diff shows nothing else was lost — its `vera/` and `tests/` delta is
identical at the reviewed and merged heads apart from one count line.
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Adversarial re-review (third round) — PR #1419 at 2668b17e
Fresh worktree of the new head against its base d88bf490, canary printed before every command.
The code is in good shape. Findings B, C, D and E from the last round are closed, nothing regressed from the eight-shape matrix, and finding A is correctly not claimed fixed. The brief for this round was whether the disclosures are exact. They are not yet — six gaps, every one a documentation edit, none a code change.
Last round's findings — disposition
| # | Finding | Now | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | High — imported-constructor shadow miscompiled | Filed, correctly not claimed fixed | All four shapes reproduce unchanged at head: show(shlib::mk_sq(7)) → Circ(7) (control Sq(7)); the module's own match gives tag_of_circ = 107 (control 207); mk_sq(7) == mk_circ(7) → 1 (control 0); their hashes equal; and with Shape { Sq(Int), Circ(String) } the string-pool read Circ(Sq()Cir). #1436 is OPEN and bug-labelled with a title naming exactly those symptoms. |
| B | Medium — new ICE on a legal Ordering redeclaration |
Closed | public data Ordering { Lt, Eq, Gt } and private data Ordering { Less, Equal } are check-clean, then compile to [E602] … unsupported NullaryConstructor: unknown nullary constructor 'Less' / 'Greater' — function skipped, exit 1 — byte-for-byte the degrade I measured at 35ff4def before #1414. _owned_ctor_layout returns None instead of raising. TestRedeclaringAPreludeAdtNeverICEs asserts only the absence of an ICE, and its docstring states plainly what it does not assert — an honest cell. |
| C | Low — rail scope | Closed | Three attributes (_ctor_layouts, _ctor_to_adt, _ctor_adt_tp_indices) over a globbed vera/wasm + vera/codegen plus vera/smt.py. By the rail's own definition: 35 files, 40 attribute sites, 37 markers, 3 in _ALLOWED. _ALLOWED now matches on (class, function) pairs, so no __init__ elsewhere inherits the exemption; the directories are globbed, so a new module joins by existing; monomorphize.py's own flat ownership map is now inside the rail and annotated; the non-vacuity cell asserts >= 35 and all(per_attr.values()), so no attribute can silently stop matching. |
| D | Low — two policies for one condition | Closed | The door returns None and explicitly does not re-resolve by bare name, with the comment naming _recover_ptype_via_nested_fields as the matching policy. |
| E | Low — operators.py leg 3 over-claimed |
Closed | Corrected. |
No regression. The full eight-shape × fifteen-observation matrix (compare on Int/String/Float64, eq and hash of the results) is identical to the control on every row, hashes byte-identical, all rows check-clean and verify-clean. The verifier is unchanged in both directions: refuted → violated + E500 (t1=1, t3=1), the provable one at Tier 1 (t1=2, t3=0).
And the prelude restatement genuinely works, so nothing needs walking back there — I checked because the revert made it worth checking. Same-shape private data Ordering { Less, Equal, Greater } + show(compare(1, 2)) → Less; public data Option<T> { None, Some(T) } beside show(json_as_int(JNumber(42.7))) → Some(42) and show(Some(3)) → Some(3). All match the control, at head and base.
Disclosure gaps
| # | Sev | What | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | Medium | The §11.16 cross-reference is dangling. spec/08-modules.md §8.4 now says a local declaration taking an imported type's constructor name "is likewise outside this rule (§8.5.2), but see the compilation caveat in §11.16: the compiled namespace is flat, so that pair is not yet compiled correctly." spec/11-compilation.md is not in this commit's file list and contains no such caveat — a reader who follows the pointer finds §11.16's existing E609/E610/E621/E623 material, none of which covers an entry declaration taking a module's constructor name. |
git diff HEAD~1..HEAD --name-only has no spec/11-compilation.md; grep -n "not yet compiled correctly|1436" spec/11-compilation.md is empty. My repro is check-clean with zero diagnostics, so no existing §11.16 rail describes it. |
| D2 | Medium | The plainest statement of the promise is still uncaveated. spec/08-modules.md:361 (§8.5.4, the section actually about imported constructors) reads "Constructor names follow the same shadowing rules as function names: a local declaration shadows an imported constructor (§8.5.2), and a constructor name two imports both supply is refused (§8.5.2.2, E157) exactly as a function name is." §8.4 carries the caveat; §8.5.4 is where a reader looking this up lands, and it says the shape works. |
sed -n '359,363p' spec/08-modules.md |
| D3 | Medium | The PR body is stale against the code it describes, in three places. (a) "The door's impossible case now raises rather than re-resolving by bare name" — it no longer raises; that is exactly what finding B's fix removed. (b) "every _ctor_layouts access in vera/wasm/ and vera/smt.py must be the door or carry a # ctor-owner-exempt: reason" — the rail is now three attributes over a globbed vera/wasm + vera/codegen + vera/smt.py. (c) It lists "imported-constructor shadowing" among the shapes that are "untouched and celled", with no mention that the shape miscompiles; the body contains no occurrence of 1436. |
gh pr view 1419 --json body at headRefOid 2668b17eb: '1436' 0 hits, 'ICE' 0 hits, and the two quoted sentences present verbatim. |
| D4 | Low | The rail's own annotations assert the thing #1436 falsifies, at the six sites that cause it. vera/wasm/data.py:78 says "a parsed constructor call the checker already resolved"; :842, :1088, :1257, :1458, :1465, :1524 say "checker-resolved". True within one namespace — the checker resolved the module's Sq in the module's namespace, while _ctor_layouts is one map across every absorbed namespace and the entry file's declaration wins the slot. These are the exact sites behind the measured Circ(7), tag_of_circ = 107 and ==-true results. A rail is only as good as its reasons; "within one namespace (#1436)" would make them true. |
grep -rn "ctor-owner-exempt" vera/wasm/data.py; WAT: $mk_sq emits i32.const 1 where Shape.Sq is tag 0. |
| D5 | Low | Three smt.py markers describe a guard that is not at those sites. vera/smt.py:2850, :3019, :3248 say "the SMT ADT registry is namespace-flat; owner-stamped refs resolve before it". All three are on ConstructorCall paths, and ConstructorCall carries no owner field at all; the owner-first resolution is in _nullary_ctor_sort at vera/smt.py:3112. Vacuously true, but it reads as a guarantee the site does not have. |
sed -n '2850p;3019p;3248p' vera/smt.py — all three are self._ctor_to_adt.get(ctor_name) / .get(expr.name) on ConstructorCall. |
| D6 | Low | E159 is undocumented in the agent-facing reference. Neither SKILL.md nor docs/SKILL.md mentions it, though both were amended for E158's reservation in an earlier round. It is a new refusal an agent trips by writing two ADTs that happen to share a constructor name, and SKILL.md is where an agent looks. |
grep -n "E159" SKILL.md docs/SKILL.md README.md FAQ.md docs/index.md → empty. It is in the registry (vera errors lists E159 typecheck Two data declarations share a constructor name) and check_diagnostic_fields passes. |
None of these needs a code change. D1–D3 are the ones I would want before merge, because each is a statement a reader can act on that is currently false; D4–D6 are polish.
One thing I checked and am not raising. KNOWN_ISSUES.md's ## Bugs section still reads "No known bugs." while #1436 is open and bug-labelled, which looked like a gap against the project's new-issue rule. It is not one for this PR: check_doc_counts.py --check-bug-issues reports 56 open bug-labelled issues with no Bugs row on this branch — including #1414 and #1425, the two this PR closes. The table is reconciled at release time, not per-PR, on release/v0.2.0. Singling out #1436 would be inconsistent with the other 55.
Repros, for the record
#1436 (unchanged, correctly disclosed as unfixed). s3lib.vera declares public data Shape { Sq(Int), Circ(Int) } with mk_sq / mk_circ / area_tag; the entry file adds an unused declaration and imports it:
import s3lib;
private data Mine {
Pad(Bool),
Sq(Bool)
}
public fn tag_of_circ(-> @Int)
requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
{
s3lib::area_tag(s3lib::mk_circ(7))
}
vera check OK, vera verify OK, result 107 where the control gives 207.
Finding B, now degrading cleanly.
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Lt,
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Gt
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requires(true)
ensures(true)
effects(pure)
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show(compare(1, 2))
}
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In `@vera/codegen/monomorphize.py`:
- Line 1666: The constructor type-parameter lookup in `_adt_satisfies_eq` must
use an owner-qualified `(base, ctor_name)` table so shadowed constructors cannot
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| for ctor_name, layout in layouts.items(): | ||
| tp_indices = self._ctor_adt_tp_indices.get(ctor_name) | ||
| tp_indices = self._ctor_adt_tp_indices.get(ctor_name) # ctor-owner-exempt: instantiation discovery keyed on the whole program, not one namespace |
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Use the owning ADT when reading constructor type-parameter indices.
_adt_satisfies_eq selects layouts for the known base, but _ctor_adt_tp_indices is keyed only by ctor.name. RegistrationMixin._register_data can therefore replace Option.Some with a legal user shadow such as ZzBox.Some, which can make the structural-Eq gate use the wrong indices. E159 does not reject prelude shadowing.
Add an owner-qualified table and read (base, ctor_name) here. Keep the flat projection only for paths that have no owner, and update the exemption reason to describe that distinction.
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In `@vera/codegen/monomorphize.py` at line 1666, The constructor type-parameter
lookup in `_adt_satisfies_eq` must use an owner-qualified `(base, ctor_name)`
table so shadowed constructors cannot select another ADT’s indices. Add and
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@coderabbitai Verified, and declining for this PR with two measurements. The premise is right that E159 does not reject prelude shadowing, but the shapes that would reach _adt_satisfies_eq with an ambiguous name are refused earlier: private data ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Some(Bool) } beside any use of Option's Some is [E213]/[E121] at check, and the Some-free route (map_get(...) == map_get(...)) returns the same value with and without the shadow. Instrumenting the site across all 289 compilable corpus programs, _adt_satisfies_eq is called zero times and no (base, ctor) it would read is declared by more than one ADT.
The owner-qualified table you describe is the right shape and is what the #1436 follow-up builds: the projections become namespace-scoped, so this lookup answers for the compiling namespace rather than the whole program. I have reworded the exemption here to say that distinction rather than the flat "keyed on the whole program".
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@aallan, thanks for the verification and the measurements.
The reported checker behavior prevents the ambiguous constructor cases from reaching _adt_satisfies_eq in this PR. The Some-free route also has unchanged behavior. Deferring namespace-scoped owner-qualified constructor type-parameter projections to #1436 is appropriate.
The revised exemption comment accurately describes the current limitation and the follow-up boundary.
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`data Nest<T> { N(Nest<Option<T>>), Z }` grows its type argument at every
level, so the instantiation chain `Nest<Int>` -> `Nest<Option<Int>>` ->
`Nest<Option<Option<Int>>>` never repeats and the type has no finite set of
instantiations. Three consumers broke on that, in three different ways, which
is what settles where the rule belongs:
* `vera verify` produced no verdict for 67-76 s and then an internal-compiler
`E699`, because the datatype-group closure has no fixed point to reach;
* `==` over such a value recursed the CHECKER into a `RecursionError` — an
`E699` before verification was reached at all, so "check accepts it" was
only ever true of the exact repro; and
* the SMT sort key doubles in SIZE per level for `Ne<Tuple<T, T>>`, where the
instantiation count stays small.
New E129: a recursive occurrence — of the type itself, or of any type mutually
recursive with it — must instantiate that type at the declaration's own type
parameters, in order. It is about the ARGUMENTS, not the name, so a
permutation is non-regular and so is an occurrence reached through a carrier's
type argument. Stating the rule at the declaration closes all three at once.
The rule lives in `vera/regularity.py` because TWO consumers ask it. The
checker refuses the declaration. The SMT layer declines to MODEL it, because
`verify()` is a public entry point whose "must already have passed type
checking" precondition is a library caller's to keep — measured when it is
not, `verify()` called directly on a check-refused program did not come back
within 60 s. It returns in 0.2 s now, by the RULE rather than by any bound on
how far the walk may go, and a structural cell asserts neither consumer
carries its own copy: the symptom of a second copy is silence, one refusing
what the other models.
A member-count bound was implemented first and is the wrong instrument on
every count the review measured. It is a cliff rather than a rule, and a
silent one — the 258th member changed a verdict with no diagnostic. Nothing
constrained its constant: set to 1, the whole suite stayed green. It never
fires for the `Tuple<T, T>` shape, whose key doubles in size while the count
stays small. And it demoted legitimate code: a 13-line `data R<A, B, C, D, E>`
whose constructor permutes its parameters reaches 610 members and loses a
Tier-1 proof it verifies in 0.3 s without the bound. DESIGN §0.2 — explicit
and decidable in preference to a silent cliff — settles it, so the bound is
removed rather than tuned and a cell asserts it stays removed.
Five irregular shapes are refused, one per reason: grows-by-a-layer,
doubles-in-size, MUTUAL (neither declaration mentions its own name
irregularly, so a per-declaration test passes both halves), through a
carrier's type argument, and permuting. Four regular controls are untouched
and still verify at Tier 1: self-recursion, a mutually recursive pair, a
branching tree, and an occurrence reached through a carrier at its own
parameters. Across examples/, tests/conformance/ and the probe corpus — 474
programs — zero are refused. Cells carry a subprocess timeout, because the
failure being fixed is the absence of an answer, and the prompt-refusal cells
assert the CODE rather than a non-zero exit, since the E699 they replace is
also non-zero. For a mutual pair the remedy names the OFFENDING type
(`B<T>`), not the declaration under inspection.
E129 rather than E159: Stream T's #1419 is further along and registers E159
for #1425. E160 is not free (`Array index must be Int or Nat`), and E129 is
the better home anyway — the gap at the end of the E120-E128 data-declaration
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Registered in errors.py and _since.py at 0.2.0 (in sort position), spec §2.4
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`data Nest<T> { N(Nest<Option<T>>), Z }` grows its type argument at every
level, so the instantiation chain `Nest<Int>` -> `Nest<Option<Int>>` ->
`Nest<Option<Option<Int>>>` never repeats and the type has no finite set of
instantiations. Three consumers broke on that, in three different ways, which
is what settles where the rule belongs:
* `vera verify` produced no verdict for 67-76 s and then an internal-compiler
`E699`, because the datatype-group closure has no fixed point to reach;
* `==` over such a value recursed the CHECKER into a `RecursionError` — an
`E699` before verification was reached at all, so "check accepts it" was
only ever true of the exact repro; and
* the SMT sort key doubles in SIZE per level for `Ne<Tuple<T, T>>`, where the
instantiation count stays small.
New E129: a recursive occurrence — of the type itself, or of any type mutually
recursive with it — must instantiate that type at the declaration's own type
parameters, in order. It is about the ARGUMENTS, not the name, so a
permutation is non-regular and so is an occurrence reached through a carrier's
type argument. Stating the rule at the declaration closes all three at once.
The rule lives in `vera/regularity.py` because TWO consumers ask it. The
checker refuses the declaration. The SMT layer declines to MODEL it, because
`verify()` is a public entry point whose "must already have passed type
checking" precondition is a library caller's to keep — measured when it is
not, `verify()` called directly on a check-refused program did not come back
within 60 s. It returns in 0.2 s now, by the RULE rather than by any bound on
how far the walk may go, and a structural cell asserts neither consumer
carries its own copy: the symptom of a second copy is silence, one refusing
what the other models.
A member-count bound was implemented first and is the wrong instrument on
every count the review measured. It is a cliff rather than a rule, and a
silent one — the 258th member changed a verdict with no diagnostic. Nothing
constrained its constant: set to 1, the whole suite stayed green. It never
fires for the `Tuple<T, T>` shape, whose key doubles in size while the count
stays small. And it demoted legitimate code: a 13-line `data R<A, B, C, D, E>`
whose constructor permutes its parameters reaches 610 members and loses a
Tier-1 proof it verifies in 0.3 s without the bound. DESIGN §0.2 — explicit
and decidable in preference to a silent cliff — settles it, so the bound is
removed rather than tuned and a cell asserts it stays removed.
Five irregular shapes are refused, one per reason: grows-by-a-layer,
doubles-in-size, MUTUAL (neither declaration mentions its own name
irregularly, so a per-declaration test passes both halves), through a
carrier's type argument, and permuting. Four regular controls are untouched
and still verify at Tier 1: self-recursion, a mutually recursive pair, a
branching tree, and an occurrence reached through a carrier at its own
parameters. Across examples/, tests/conformance/ and the probe corpus — 474
programs — zero are refused. Cells carry a subprocess timeout, because the
failure being fixed is the absence of an answer, and the prompt-refusal cells
assert the CODE rather than a non-zero exit, since the E699 they replace is
also non-zero. For a mutual pair the remedy names the OFFENDING type
(`B<T>`), not the declaration under inspection.
E129 rather than E159: Stream T's #1419 is further along and registers E159
for #1425. E160 is not free (`Array index must be Int or Nat`), and E129 is
the better home anyway — the gap at the end of the E120-E128 data-declaration
well-formedness block, whose E120 is `Data invariant not Bool`.
Registered in errors.py and _since.py at 0.2.0 (in sort position), spec §2.4
as ADT rule 4, the conformance manifest with a negative fixture, and the
enumerated negative-fixture lists in AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and TESTING.md,
whose name/code pairing is positional and re-checked here (44 names, 44
codes, `ch02_nonregular_data_rejected` -> E129).
Also restores one row #1435's own rebase dropped. TESTING.md's contract-
verification row read `411 of 533 (77.1%)` while `test_verifier_adt_decreases`
asserts 413 / 535 — the correction was made in #1435, then reverted when that
PR's rebase resolved a conflicted TESTING.md hunk to the tip's side.
Re-measured here across all 43 examples before restoring: 413 Tier-1, 122
Tier-3, 535 total, 0 unguarded, 77.2%. An audit of the rest of #1435's
reviewed diff shows nothing else was lost — its `vera/` and `tests/` delta is
identical at the reviewed and merged heads apart from one count line.
Fixes #1429
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Code generation held constructor layouts in one table keyed by bare constructor name across every data type (`ctor_layouts.update(layouts)` over `_adt_layouts.items()`, built-ins first), so a later declaration won the slot outright. #1408 closed that for `Tuple` and `Future` by reserving the names; the mechanism was general, and for an unreserved name it was a silent wrong value. With `private data ZzBox { Less(Bool) }` anywhere in the file — never used — `show(compare(1, 2))`, `(2, 1)` and `(2, 2)` all returned `Less(false)` where the control returns `Less` / `Greater` / `Equal`, on a program `vera check` and `vera verify` both call clean. A second shape degraded rather than lying: `private data ZzBox { UrlParts(Bool) }` beside a genuine `show(@UrlParts)` compiled to a module with no exports behind an `[E602]` warning. Both measured identical at release/v0.2.0 and at the #1404 merge tip. Widening the reservation is not the fix and is not done. §8.4.1 makes the prelude's data types shadowable, #1277 says so in terms, and an AST-level corpus scan — validated against a known positive first, since the obvious version of it silently misses everything by not unwrapping `TopLevelDecl` — shows `examples/vera/collections.vera` declares `None` and `Some`, so a reservation over prelude constructor names would refuse a shipped example. `Tuple` and `Future` are reserved because their SEMANTICS are special-cased by name, which is a different property. So the layouts are keyed per owning ADT. The wasm layer carries the unflattened map beside the flat one; the constructor-plan derivation that renders and compares a value reads the ADT it was asked about rather than whatever the by-name table held; and the three `Ordering` references the `compare` desugaring emits carry their owner structurally, because that desugaring's `Less` means `Ordering` whatever the program declares and a name lookup is exactly what a declaration can move. A bare constructor call whose name genuinely collides is still resolved by name — that is the checker's job, and it already refuses the ambiguous cases (E213/E215/E121). The user's own shadowing constructor keeps working: `show(Less(true))` is `Less(true)` beside `Ordering`'s. Also from the #1404 review round: `test_a_constructor_of_an_unreserved_ builtin_name_is_fine` is renamed to say what it measures (E158 does not fire) rather than a safety property this bug shows it does not have; the two SKILL copies say the reservation covers both namespaces; and a constructor the checker has just refused no longer lands in `env.constructors`. Corpus differential against release/v0.2.0: one mover, the new conformance program itself. Review round 3 closes the remaining findings. Constructor names are unique per NAMESPACE (spec §8.4), and two of the three namespaces had a rail — E610 for two modules, E157 for two imports — while a single file had none. Two declarations sharing a constructor name were accepted silently, and a USE then reported whichever declaration registered last: `Rose<T> { Leaf(T), Node(T, Rose<T>) }` beside `ZzBox { Node(Bool) }` gave "Constructor 'Node' expects 1 field(s), got 2", the OTHER type's arity. That is now E159 at the second declaration, scoped to the registration pass rather than to `env.constructors` — which already holds the prelude's and the imports' entries by then — so the two shadowing shapes §8.4.1 and §8.5.2 make legal are untouched, and both are celled. Corpus and examples: zero refusals outside the new negative. `_desugar_compare` now stamps its three `Ordering` references with their owner, making its "mirrors codegen exactly" docstring true again, and the SMT nullary sort resolves by owner before the recorded-type hint and the bare-name scan. A desugared node has no recorded type of its own, so the scan answered — and a user `data ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less }` captured the `Less` that `compare` emits, demoting a statically REFUTED postcondition to Tier 3 with exit 0. It reports E500 again, celled across four declaration shapes against the no-declaration control. The flat-map fallbacks are gone, on measurement rather than argument: instrumented over the full pytest suite, the conformance suite twice (the second under VERA_EAGER_GC=1), the examples' check/verify and run gates, and a compile of all 302 corpus programs, all three were reached zero times. The door's impossible case now raises instead of re-resolving by bare name, which is what would have hidden this defect class. A structural rail replaces the one-at-a-time discovery that found the last three sites: every `_ctor_layouts` access in `vera/wasm/` and `vera/smt.py` must be the owner-qualified door or carry a `# ctor-owner-exempt:` reason, mutation-validated to red when a marker is withdrawn. `operators.py`'s conversion stays inert under coverage, and its three legs are asserted rather than asserted-about: the flat enumeration really does lose `Ordering`'s `Less`, every `Ordering` constructor is nullary so the emitted equality cannot see the loss, and the field-carrying shadow that would observe it is unbuildable (E159, or E213 for `Some`/`Ok`/`Err`). Review round 4 closes the five findings that round left open. The new ICE is gone. `_owned_ctor_layout` raised when an owner-stamped reference named a constructor its owner does not declare, and §8.4.1 permits exactly that: `private data Ordering { Less, Equal }` beside `show(compare(1, 2))` is check-clean and verify-clean, and the desugared `Greater` has nowhere to resolve. The door degrades to no-layout, so the caller's CodegenSkip reports the construct and drops the function — the behaviour the compiler had before #1414 — and the nested-recovery site takes the same door rather than silently re-resolving by bare name, so one condition has one policy. Resolving an owner-stamped reference against the built-in snapshot first was tried and reverted: it repairs the constructor's layout but not the render side, which enumerates `Ordering` out of the same ADT-name-keyed map and gets the user's constructors, and the module then fails to load — worse than the skip. Both sides have to become owner-aware together, which is the same per-(owner, ADT, constructor) keying #1436 needs. The structural rail is widened from one attribute in seven hand-listed files to three (`_ctor_layouts`, `_ctor_to_adt`, `_ctor_adt_tp_indices`) across all of vera/wasm/ and vera/codegen/ plus vera/smt.py, discovered by globbing so a new module joins by existing. `vera/smt.py` was listed for an attribute it does not use, which made its listing vacuous while `monomorphize.py` — which builds its own flat ownership map — was outside the rail; both are covered now, the allowlist matches on (class, function) rather than a bare `__init__` name, and the non-vacuity cell asserts every attribute the rail claims is actually present. Two claims this PR made are corrected rather than defended. The `operators.py` justification asserted the observing shadow is "unbuildable"; it is buildable across a module boundary, and that shape is is generated there at all — and the cell now says so. E159's fix text and the new spec §8.4 sentence asserted that shadowing an IMPORTED constructor is safe; the prelude half is true and the imported half is not, so the spec now points at the §11.16 compilation caveat and the fix text claims only the prelude case. Fixes #1414 Fixes #1425 Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.invalid>
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…rifier The #1431 reviewer's own shape -- `Some(@PosInt.0)` beside a `None` arm -- could not be a cell while it died with an E699 sort mismatch before a single obligation was emitted. That crash was #1424, which #1431 fixed, and with #1431 in the base the program translates: `tier3`/E534 with its clean twin still proving and still returning 7. The construction rule needed no change for it -- the occurrence walk finds a disclosed value inside a constructor application because it asks by occurrence -- so this pins the rule on the exact program the review raised rather than only on the carriers chosen to dodge the crash. Counts re-derived over the rebase onto #1419's tree.
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Closes #1414, the finding-7 sibling of #1408 raised by adversarial review on #1404. Pre-existing at
release/v0.2.0and at the #1404 merge tip; not a regression from either.The defect
Code generation held constructor layouts in one table keyed by bare constructor name across every data type —
ctor_layouts.update(layouts)over_adt_layouts.items()invera/codegen/functions.pyand again inclosures.py, with_register_builtin_adts()having run first — so a later declaration won the slot outright. #1408 closed this forTupleandFutureby reserving those names. The mechanism was never specific to them.Repro 1 — a silent wrong value.
ZzBoxis never used; its mere declaration changes whatcomparereturns for every input:ltgteqqLessGreaterEqualrelease/v0.2.0and the #1404 tipLess(false)Less(false)Less(false)LessGreaterEqualvera checkandvera verifyare both clean on it — zero diagnostics, zero warnings.Repro 2 — a dropped function.
private data ZzBox { UrlParts(Bool) }beside a genuineshow(@UrlParts)was check- and verify-clean, then compiled to a module with no exports behind an[E602]warning. Here it compiles clean and exportsrender.Why not widen the reservation
DESIGN's tiebreaker points away from it and measurement settles it. §8.4.1 makes the prelude's data types ordinary declarations a program may shadow; #1277 states plainly that "reserving the prelude's names is not the fix and is not done: §8.4.1 forbids it"; and an AST-level scan of all 301 corpus programs finds
examples/vera/collections.veradeclaringNoneandSome— so a reservation over prelude constructor names would refuse a shipped example imported byexamples/modules.vera.TupleandFuturestay reserved for a different reason: their semantics are recognised by name throughout code generation, which is a property of those two names, not of prelude constructors generally.The fix — per-owner keying
WasmContextcarries the unflattenedadt_ctor_layouts(ADT → constructor → layout) beside the flat map, threaded from both construction sites._composite_ctor_plans— the derivation behindshowand structuralEq— reads the layouts of the ADT it was asked about instead of whatever the by-name table held. Previously it filtered by owner using_ctor_to_adtand then read the clobbered flat entry, and since_ctor_to_adtis flat too, the owner filter itself had already lost the type's own constructor.Orderingreferences thecomparedesugaring emits now carry their owner structurally (NullaryConstructor.owner). That desugaring'sLessmeansOrderingwhatever the program declares, and a name lookup is precisely what a declaration can move — this is DESIGN principle 4, a structural reference in place of a name.A bare constructor call whose name genuinely collides is still resolved by name. That is the checker's job and it already refuses the ambiguous cases (E213 / E215 / E121) — which is exactly why "unreserved" could not be read as "safe" and why finding 7 existed.
The shadow keeps working in both directions:
show(Less(true))isLess(true)besideOrdering'sLess, pinned by its own cell.Tests
Four red-first cells in
tests/test_name_resolution_spine_1316.py(3 red before the change, 1 the control that is green at every revision), plustests/conformance/ch09_user_ctor_shadows_prelude_ctor.vera.That conformance fixture is a
run-level positive, not a negative — a deviation from the brief worth stating: §8.4.1 makes the program legal, so there is nothing to reject. The bug was that a legal program compiled to the wrong answer, and the artifact that pins the fix is one that runs and checks its output.Also in this PR (from the #1404 review round)
test_a_constructor_of_an_unreserved_builtin_name_is_fine→..._is_not_E158, named for the assertion rather than a safety property this bug shows it does not have.SKILL.md/docs/SKILL.mdTuples section: the reservation covers both namespaces, not just the data one.env.constructors.Review round 3
The writer was not converted. Keying only the reader left the value TAGGED out of the user's ADT and rendered out of
Ordering's; they agree exactly when the shadowing constructor sits at its namesake's index, which every fixture in the first round did.ZzBoxshapeLesstag{ Less(Bool) }Less/Greater/Equal✓{ Pad(Bool), Less }Equal/Greater/Equal{ A, B, C, Less }Greater/Greater/EqualWasmContext._owned_ctor_layoutis now the one door and the nullary writer goes through it. Pinned by 3 shadow indices ×compareonInt/String/Float64, pluseq/hashof the results —eq(compare(1,2), compare(2,2))was true under the half-fix withhashagreeing, so neither reader would have caught the other.E159 — constructor names are unique per namespace (closes #1425). Spec §8.4 puts all three clashes under one rule; E610 (two modules) and E157 (two imports) existed, a single file had none.
A1 { Pair(Int, Int) }besideA2 { Pair(Bool, Bool) }was accepted, and a use then reported the other type's arity. The check is scoped to the registration pass, not toenv.constructors— which already holds the prelude's and the imports' entries by then — so both shapes E159 leaves legal are celled: prelude restatement (collections.veradeclaresNone/Some), which is untouched and correct, and imported-constructor shadowing, which E159 leaves legal but which is not compiled correctly — that is #1436, pre-existing, filed from this PR's review and now caveated in spec §8.5.4 and §11.16 rather than promised. Corpus and examples: zero refusals outside the new negative._desugar_compareis owner-keyed, and its "mirrors codegen exactly" docstring is true again. The SMT nullary sort resolves by owner before the recorded-type hint and the bare-name scan: a desugared node has no recorded type of its own, so the scan answered, anddata ZzBox { Pad(Bool), Less }captured theLessthatcompareemits — demoting a statically refuted postcondition to Tier 3 with exit 0. It reports E500 again, celled across four declaration shapes against the no-declaration control.The flat fallbacks are gone, on measurement. Instrumented over the full pytest suite, the conformance suite twice (the second under
VERA_EAGER_GC=1), the examples' check/verify and run gates, and a compile of all 302 corpus programs: all three reached zero times. The door's impossible case now raises rather than re-resolving by bare name — which is what would have hidden this defect class.A structural rail replaces the one-at-a-time discovery that found the last three sites: every
_ctor_layoutsaccess invera/wasm/andvera/smt.pymust be the door or carry a# ctor-owner-exempt:reason. Mutation-validated — withdrawing one marker turns it red.operators.pystays inert under coverage, and its three legs are asserted rather than asserted-about: the flat enumeration really does loseOrdering'sLess(measured), everyOrderingconstructor is nullary so the emitted equality cannot see the loss, and the field-carrying shadow that would observe it is unbuildable (E159, or E213 forSome/Ok/Err).Rebased twice during this round, over #1411 and #1420.
Gates
pytest tests/(13,146 passed, 188 skipped, 26 deselected) ·mypy vera/·ruff check .·ruff check --select S vera/·check_conformance.py(252) ·check_examples.py(43) ·check_examples_run.py·check_corpus_canonical.py(302) ·check_doc_counts.py(13,360 / 252 / 302) ·check_site_assets.py(regenerated) ·check_explicit_encoding.py·check_limitations_sync.py·check_skill_examples.py·check_diagnostic_fields.py·check_version_sync.py·check_editor_grammars.py·check_doc_builtin_shadowing.pyCorpus differential against
origin/release/v0.2.0: 1 mover, the new conformance program itself (WAT differs and shrinks — the correct, smaller plan set). No pre-existing program moved, which is consistent with the scan: the only corpus collision iscollections.vera's same-shape restatement, which shares the slot harmlessly under §11.16.Fixes #1414
Fixes #1425
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