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3 more items of rung E7 in the v2 plan, one commit each. The grammar reconciliation (the last item) follows on this branch.

1. A false match guard gives the value to the next arm

The desugarer did not read the guard of a constructor arm: it took Some(x) if false each time, and it kept only the last arm of each constructor.

  • A match with a guard keeps each arm of a constructor, in source order. The arms go to one core match on the payload of the constructor. The core match already honours guards in the type checker, the wasm back end and the interpreter.
  • Each arm binds the payload again, so a linear payload is consumed one time.
  • A match with a guard and no constructor pattern is one core match (before: an "empty match" error).
  • A constructor where each arm has a guard is "non-exhaustive match".
  • New error GuardWithNestedConstructor: a constructor pattern inside another pattern, in a match with a guard.
  • A match with no guard lowers as before.

2. Explicit type arguments at a call

id[I32](3), the form in spec/ephapax-v2-grammar.ebnf (type_app_op). The checker takes the type arguments from the brackets, so zero[I64]() works for fn zero<a>(): I32.

  • Grammar: type_app_op = "[" ty_list "]", only before a call, and before index_op.
  • xs[i](3) has the two readings when i is one lower-case name. The desugarer reads it as an index, unless the name is a type parameter of the function it is in. No program that checked before changes.
  • Core: ExprKind::TypeApp { name, type_args }, a leaf as Var is. Each pass that reads a variable reads it the same way.
  • New errors NotGeneric and TypeArgumentCount.
  • Monomorphisation replaces the node with the name of the copy.

3. A data type is visible as a function is

Owner decision 2026-11-10. Before, each module saw each data type and constructor of each module loaded before it.

  • A module names a data type and its constructors when it declares them, or when it imports the module and the type is pub.
  • With an import list, the list names the type: import lib(Box, unbox). The constructors come with the type.
  • The data registry has one scope for each module. The body of a data type or of a type alias expands in the scope of the module that declares it.
  • Type aliases and extern types stay visible in each module, as before.

Verification

  • cargo test --workspace: 614 passed, 0 failed.
  • cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets: clean.
  • scripts/status-gate.sh: 611 all-target tests.
  • scripts/probe-battery.sh: 51 SAME, 7 SKIP (the SKIP rows need the wasmtime CLI).
  • New gate tests, each on wasm and on the interpreter: a_false_guard_gives_the_value_to_the_next_arm, a_call_can_give_its_type_arguments, a_module_names_a_data_type_only_through_a_pub_import, and 3 more refused programs in generic_programs_the_checker_refuses.

Known limits

  • The interpreter cannot call a function with no parameter by its name (a defect from before this change). The zero[I64]() case runs on wasm only.
  • The core parser fallback does not know the type parameters in scope: brackets with one name are an index there.

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The desugarer did not read the guard of a constructor arm: it took
`Some(x) if false` each time, and it kept only the last arm of each
constructor. A guard on a match with no constructor pattern was an
"empty match" error.

A match with a guard now keeps each arm of a constructor, in source
order. The arms go to one core `match` on the payload of the
constructor. The core `match` tries the arms in order and honours each
guard, in the type checker, in the wasm back end and in the
interpreter. Each arm binds the payload again, so a linear payload is
consumed one time.

- A match with a guard and no constructor pattern is one core `match`.
- A constructor where each arm has a guard is "non-exhaustive match".
- A constructor pattern inside another pattern, in a match with a
  guard, is the new error `GuardWithNestedConstructor`.
- When more than one arm reads a payload, the payload variable does not
  take the name of a variable of one arm. That name would hide an outer
  variable in the other arms.

A match with no guard lowers as before.

Tests: 608 all-target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZmKrYLDC4WHi2yt11u
A call can give the type arguments of a generic function: `id[I32](3)`,
the form in spec/ephapax-v2-grammar.ebnf (`type_app_op`). The checker
takes the type arguments from the brackets, so a type parameter that no
argument fixes has a value: `zero[I64]()` for `fn zero<a>(): I32`.

- Grammar: `type_app_op = "[" ty_list "]"`, only before a call, and
  before `index_op`. `xs[i](3)` has the two readings when `i` is one
  lower-case name. The desugarer reads it as an index, unless the name
  is a type parameter of the function it is in. A lower-case name is a
  type in no other case, so no program that checked before changes.
- Core: `ExprKind::TypeApp { name, type_args }`, a leaf as `Var` is.
  Each pass that reads a variable reads it the same way.
- Checker: the type arguments unify with the type parameters. New
  errors `NotGeneric` and `TypeArgumentCount`.
- Monomorphisation replaces the node with the name of the copy, and
  substitutes the type parameters of a copy in the type arguments.
- The core parser fallback does not know the type parameters in scope:
  one name is an index there.

Tests: 610 all-target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZmKrYLDC4WHi2yt11u
Each module saw each data type and each constructor of each module
loaded before it, with or without `pub`, with or without an import.
The parser did not keep the `pub` of a `data` declaration.

Owner decision 2026-11-10: the rule of functions. A module names a data
type and its constructors when it declares them, or when it imports the
module that declares them and the type is `pub`. A private `data` stays
in its module. With an import list, the list names the type, and the
constructors come with it: `import lib(Box, unbox)`.

- `DataDecl` has a `visibility`, and the surface parser sets it.
- The data registry has one scope for each module: its own data types
  and the public ones of its imports, in the order of the imports. A
  later import shadows an earlier one; a declaration of the module
  shadows both.
- The body of a data type or of a type alias expands in the scope of
  the module that declares it. So a public type with a private type in
  a field has one meaning in each module, and two types of one name in
  2 modules are not a recursive type.
- The type checker reads each name of an import list as a function. The
  desugarer gives it the list without the data type names; an import
  that names only data types imports no function.

Type aliases and extern types stay visible in each module, as before.

Tests: 611 all-target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZmKrYLDC4WHi2yt11u
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  • New Features
    • Generic functions can now be called with explicit type arguments, including imported functions.
    • Public data types and their constructors are available to importing modules, with visibility respected.
    • Match expressions support ordered guarded arms, including guards on constructor payload patterns.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Explicit generic applications are handled consistently across type checking, interpretation and compiled execution.
    • Generic applications and list indexing are distinguished more reliably.

The pull request adds explicit generic type arguments, module-scoped visibility for data types and constructors, and ordered guarded match arms. It updates parsing, desugaring, type checking, analysis, execution, and tests for these changes.

Changes: Explicit generic type applications

Layer / File(s) Summary
Type-application syntax and representation
src/ephapax-syntax/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-surface/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-parser/src/*
The surface and core expression models represent type applications. The parser recognises bracketed type arguments before indexing and preserves the existing interpretation of a single type variable as an index where applicable.
Desugaring, type checking, and monomorphisation
src/ephapax-desugar/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-typing/src/*
Desugaring handles explicit type applications. Type checking rejects non-generic names and argument-count mismatches, then unifies supplied arguments with inferred parameters. Monomorphisation substitutes the explicit arguments and rewrites the application.
Execution, analysis, and regression coverage
src/ephapax-driver/src/qualify.rs, src/ephapax-analysis/src/*, ephapax-linear/src/*, src/ephapax-interp/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-wasm/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-ir/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-lsp/src/main.rs, src/ephapax-cli/tests/generics.rs, TEST-NEEDS.adoc
Qualification, analysis, interpreter, WebAssembly, IR, and LSP paths handle type applications. Tests cover explicit arguments and error cases. The documented all-target test total changes from 607 to 611.

Module-scoped data-type visibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Data visibility in surface declarations
src/ephapax-surface/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-parser/src/surface.rs
DataDecl records visibility. The parser sets it to public when a visibility rule precedes the data type name.
Scoped registry and imported types
src/ephapax-desugar/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-driver/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-cli/tests/run_wasm.rs
The registry stores data types and constructors by module, tracks declaration visibility, and imports public data types and their constructors into importing module scopes. Desugaring resolves types and constructors within the current or declaring module. Tests cover imports, access restrictions, shadowing, and type identity.

Guarded match arms

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ordered guarded-match lowering
src/ephapax-desugar/src/lib.rs, src/ephapax-cli/tests/run_wasm.rs
Match desugaring preserves guarded arm order and builds constructor-payload arm chains. Guarded matches with nested constructor patterns produce GuardWithNestedConstructor. Tests cover guard fall-through, pattern forms, linear payloads, and compile-time restrictions.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Parser
  participant Desugarer
  participant TypeChecker
  participant Mono
  participant WasmCompiler
  Parser->>Desugarer: TypeApp expression
  Desugarer->>TypeChecker: Desugared type application
  TypeChecker->>Mono: Checked type arguments
  Mono->>WasmCompiler: Monomorphic function reference
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Possibly related PRs

  • hyperpolymath/ephapax#429: Adds generic-function checking and monomorphisation, which this PR extends with explicit type arguments.
  • hyperpolymath/ephapax#426: Adds module-qualified function renaming, which this PR extends to type-application names.
  • hyperpolymath/ephapax#425: Tests importing and calling constructors for public data types, which this PR addresses through module-scoped visibility.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 46576

Guarded matches that consume a linear string in the guard can pass type checking and then fail at runtime. Same-named type aliases across modules can also change imported data field types. Fix both before merging.

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- Around line 1466-1469: Update match guard handling in check_match so a guard
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2 review findings on #431, each checked against the code.

- A guard could consume a linear value and return false. The next arm is
  checked from the state after the scrutinee, so it used the value a
  second time: `check` accepted the program, and the interpreter stopped
  with "Linear value used after consumption". The checker now refuses a
  guard that consumes a binding that can be used one time, from outside
  the match or from the pattern of the arm (`GuardConsumesLinear`). A
  guard can read or borrow such a binding. The surface syntax reaches
  this case since the guard lowering of #431.
- A type alias is visible in each module, and the alias registered last
  had the name. So `pub data Tally = T(Count)` of a module with
  `type Count = I32` got the `Count` of an importer that declares
  `type Count = Bool`. A module now gets its own alias first, and the
  body of a data type expands in the scope of its module.

Tests: 2 refused programs and 1 alias case in the gate tests of
run_wasm.rs. 614 all-target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0136P7ZmKrYLDC4WHi2yt11u
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… review fixes for #431 (#432)

## Summary

2 commits.

1. The grammar reconciliation of rung E7 in the v2 plan. Owner decision
2026-11-10: the parser grammar is the source.
2. 2 review findings on #431, which merged before they arrived.

## 1. One normative grammar

Before: `spec/ephapax-v2-grammar.ebnf` (150 productions) and
`ephapax.pest` (125 rules) had only 68 names in common, and no test
compared them.

The specification file now has 2 parts.

**Part 1: the parser grammar.** A test of `ephapax-parser`
(`grammar_conformance`) makes it from `ephapax.pest`, with the comments
of that file. The test fails when the 2 files are not the same grammar.
To write part 1 again after a change of `ephapax.pest`:

```bash
UPDATE_GRAMMAR=1 cargo test -p ephapax-parser grammar_conformance
```

**Part 2: the v2 design that the parser does not have by that name.**
Each of the 82 old productions that are not rules of the parser stays,
as the design wrote it. Each one has a mark on the line before it:

- `[ALIAS rule]` (25): the parser has the construct as `rule` of part 1.
- `[UNIMPLEMENTED]` (57): the parser does not have it. The mark names a
fixture that the parser refuses.

A "DESIGN FORM" comment keeps the design form of a production that part
1 has in a smaller form (for example `fn_decl` with `where`, contracts
and effects). The specification does not shrink.

### What the test proves

- Part 1 is the grammar of `ephapax.pest`, production for rule.
- Each rule of the parser is in the parse tree of a fixture in
`tests/v2-grammar/productions`. 5 rules can not be in a parse tree; the
test names them and the reason.
- The 2 parsers refuse each fixture in `tests/v2-grammar/unimplemented`
(26 files).
- Each alias names a rule of the parser.
- Rules + aliases + refused = all productions: **0 productions
unaccounted for**.

### Import and extern syntax

Part 1 has the forms of the parser: `import a/b`, `import a/b(x, y)`,
`extern "abi" { ... }`. The design form `import X from "f"` is in part 2
with the mark `[UNIMPLEMENTED]`. Which form wins later is an owner
decision for each construct.

### Not in this change

- An unimplemented production is refused with a syntax error. It is not
yet refused with an error that names the production (the plan asks for a
named error).
- No change to what the parser accepts.

### Other files

- `pest_meta` is a new dev-dependency of `ephapax-parser`. It was in
`Cargo.lock` already, as a dependency of `pest_derive` (same version).
- `EXPLAINME.adoc`: the entry of the grammar file says the new
structure.

## 2. Review fixes for #431

- **A match guard cannot consume a use-once value.** A guard could
consume a linear value and return false; the next arm then used the
value a second time. `check` accepted the program, and the interpreter
stopped with "Linear value used after consumption". The checker now
refuses such a guard: `TypeError::GuardConsumesLinear`. A guard can read
or borrow the binding.
- **A module gets its own type alias first.** An importer with `type
Count = Bool` changed the field of `pub data Tally = T(Count)` of a
module with `type Count = I32`. The registry now keeps the alias of each
module.

## Verification

- `cargo test --workspace`: 617 passed, 0 failed.
- `cargo fmt --all --check` and `cargo clippy --workspace
--all-targets`: clean.
- `scripts/status-gate.sh`: 614 all-target tests.
- `scripts/probe-battery.sh`: 51 SAME, 7 SKIP (the SKIP rows need the
wasmtime CLI).

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`M.Ctor(x)` works as an expression since #430. The same form in a match
pattern did not parse: `| shapes.Rect(w, h) => ...`.

- Grammar: `constructor_pattern` takes an optional `pattern_qualifier`
  and a `.` before the constructor name.
- The surface parser keeps the qualifier in the name (`M.Ctor`). The
  desugarer checks that `M` is an import of the module, and finds
  `Ctor` in the scope of the module. So the visibility rule of #431
  holds: a private type is "unknown constructor".
- The core parser fallback has no list of imports: it does not check
  the module there.

Part 1 of spec/ephapax-v2-grammar.ebnf is written again from the
grammar.

Tests: 2 programs on both engines (with and without a guard) and 2
refused programs. 618 all-target.

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… doc comments (#435)

## Summary

3 commits.

1. A match with no guard no longer takes a pattern inside a constructor
pattern as a wildcard.
2. 3 review findings on #434, which merged before they arrived. 2 of
them are regressions of #434.
3. Doc comments for the declarations that the Docstring Coverage check
listed. No behaviour changes.

## 1. A pattern inside a constructor pattern is not a wildcard

In a match with no guard, the desugarer took a literal or a constructor
inside a constructor pattern as a wildcard, and it kept only the last
arm of each constructor. Programs gave wrong results with no error.

| Program | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
| `Some(0) => 1 \| Some(n) => 2 \| None => 3` on `Some(0)` | 2 | 1 |
| `Some(0) => 1 \| None => 3` on `Some(5)` | 1 | refused: the match does
not cover `Some(5)` |
| `W(Some(x)) => 1 \| W(None) => 0` on `W(Some(9))` | 0 | refused by
name |

A match where an arm has a literal or a constructor inside a constructor
pattern now takes the ordered path of a match with a guard (#431): each
arm of a constructor, in source order, in one core `match` on the
payload.

- A literal inside a constructor pattern is honoured. The type checker
finds a match that does not cover the payload.
- A constructor inside a constructor pattern (`W(Some(x))`) has no
lowering yet. It is refused by name. The error is now
`NestedConstructorPattern` (it was `GuardWithNestedConstructor`).
- A match with no such pattern and no guard lowers as before.

## 2. Review findings on #434

- **Expression entry points.** `parse` and `parse_surface_expr` did not
refuse unimplemented syntax, and the core parser read `1 ++ 2` as `1`.
Each entry point of the 2 parsers now runs `refuse_unimplemented` on the
parse tree.
- **Interpreter scope (regression of #434).** A top-level function took
the local names of its caller. With `let g = 0 in f(1)`, the `g()` in
the body of `f` found the `g` of the caller: "Not a function". A
top-level function value now starts from an empty environment.
- **Capability annotation.** The rule was on declaration annotations.
The design has it at the FFI call: `__ffi@capabilities(io)("f")`. The
rule is now in `ffi_expr`, and the fixture has the design form.

Part 1 of `spec/ephapax-v2-grammar.ebnf` is written again from the
grammar.

## 3. Doc comments

The CodeRabbit check Docstring Coverage listed declarations with no doc
comment. Each one now has a doc comment of 1 or 2 lines:

- library code of the CLI, driver, interpreter, LSP, REPL, syntax,
typing and wasm crates;
- the grammar conformance test;
- the helpers of 4 test files (`driver_agreement.rs`, `generics.rs`,
`run_wasm.rs`, `typed_codegen_matrix.rs`).

The commit adds 61 lines of comment in 17 files and changes no code.

## Verification

- `cargo test --workspace`: 623 passed, 0 failed. No program of the
corpus changed.
- `cargo fmt --all --check` and `cargo clippy --workspace
--all-targets`: clean.
- `scripts/status-gate.sh`: 620 all-target tests.
- `scripts/probe-battery.sh`: 51 SAME, 7 SKIP (the SKIP rows need the
wasmtime CLI).
- New tests: `a_pattern_inside_a_constructor_pattern_is_not_a_wildcard`,
`an_expression_with_unimplemented_syntax_is_refused_by_name`, and one
more program in `the_interpreter_calls_and_borrows_as_wasm_does`.

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hyperpolymath added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 10, 2026
…types; the signing rule in CLAUDE.md (#436)

## Summary

2 commits, each from an owner decision of 2026-11-10.

1. A `type` alias and an extern type follow the visibility rule of data
types.
2. The commit signing rule in `CLAUDE.md` says what is in the
repository.

## 1. Visibility of type aliases and extern types

Each module used to see each alias and each extern type of the program,
with no import. A data type already followed the rule of functions
(#431). Now the 3 kinds of named type have one rule:

- A module names a type when it declares it, or when it imports the
module that declares it.
- A data type and an alias must also be `pub`. An extern type is public,
as an extern function is.
- An import list must name the type: `import lib(Meters, double)`.
- An import does not pass on the types of the modules that the imported
module imports.

| Program (module `app`) | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
| `import lib` and `fn keep(m: Meters): Meters`, with `pub type Meters =
I32` in `lib` | accepted | accepted |
| `import lib` and `fn keep(f: Feet): Feet`, with `type Feet = I32`
(private) in `lib` | accepted | refused: unknown type `Feet` |
| `import lib(double)` and a use of `Meters` | accepted | refused:
unknown type `Meters` |
| `import mid` (where `mid` imports `host`) and a use of the extern type
`Handle` of `host` | accepted | refused: unknown type `Handle` |

A public function with a private alias in its signature stays usable:
the importer does not name the alias.

### How

The desugarer had 3 tables: data types in the scope of each module, and
aliases and extern types for the whole program. A data type, an alias
and an extern type are now in the one type table of the scope of a
module (`TypeInfo { def, home, public }`, with `TypeDef::{Data, Alias,
Extern}`). Thus a declaration of a name shadows an imported type of each
kind. The import step drops alias names and extern type names from the
core import list, as it does for data types, because the type checker
reads each name in that list as a function.

No program of the corpus changed.

## 2. The commit signing rule

`CLAUDE.md` said that each commit has a signature of the owner key. In
fact each commit on `main` is a squash merge that GitHub signs with its
own key. The new text says:

- GitHub signs each squash merge on `main`.
- The owner key signs the commits that the owner makes on a local
computer.
- A cloud agent session signs its branch commits with its session key.
No private key of the owner goes into such a session.

## Verification

- `cargo test --workspace`: 624 passed, 0 failed.
- `cargo fmt --all --check` and `cargo clippy --workspace
--all-targets`: clean.
- `scripts/status-gate.sh`: 621 all-target tests (1 more than before).
- `scripts/probe-battery.sh`: 51 SAME, 7 SKIP (the SKIP rows need the
wasmtime CLI).
- New test:
`a_module_names_an_alias_or_an_extern_type_only_through_an_import` (4
programs run as wasm and in the interpreter, 2 programs compile, 4
programs are refused by name).

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