Contracts now live directly on definitions via @ / =@ annotations and
travel automatically with exported values.
- Remove !export from lexer/parser/AST/evaluator/manifest/resolver and CLI.
- Simplify workspace module export logic: export all top-level local
definitions by default.
- Update Frontend.ContractDesugar:
- Named binder annotations (x@nat?) expand to per-argument withContract.
- Phantom annotations (@nat?) expand to a local raw helper plus a wrapper,
keeping fixed points shared and only depending on withContract.
- Merge lib/guardedBase.tri into lib/base.tri and annotate partial/sensitive
base functions: head, tail, last, add, sub, mul, div, mod, pow, min,
max, length, sum, product.
- Add check contract helper to lib/base.tri.
- Update demos/contractBasics.tri and README to reflect @/=@-only design.
- Update test suite: remove guardedBase import, replace explicit !export
test with a test verifying that contract annotations on an exported
definition are enforced on import.
- Fix remaining base.tri definitions (div/mod/pow) to stay point-free.
+ let bindings
+ where bindings
+ do notation
I explored enough of the alternative language design space and decided
that we should commit fully to Lambda style. That means no more highly
tacit/concatenative point-free/partial programs as default. We'll keep
taking advantage of those capabilities when it makes sense, but the
library will continue to see massive overhauls.
Perhaps the first webserver in Tree Calculus? Sure, it's married to a Haskell
IO runtime... but we're managing all of the actual webserver semantics in tricu!
This includes a demo Arboricx application server that is capable of storing
and serving bundles.
I'm deeply satisfied to be building an interaction tree runtime where
the interaction trees are themselves computed via and represented by
trees. It's trees all the way down.
The integer-arena approach (parallel global arrays) never freed nodes,
causing 6GB+ memory usage when running the self-hosted kernel. PHP
arrays don't shrink and we have no GC for them.
- Replace int-arena with plain Node objects so PHP's refcounting GC
reclaims unreachable subtrees automatically.
- Hash-cons Stem/Fork nodes to collapse duplicate immutable subtrees.
- Cache ofNumber(0..255) to avoid re-creating byte trees.
- Eliminate indirection (tag 4) nodes entirely; projection rules now
eagerly reduce and copy tag/a/b into the original App node.
- Remove all deref() loops — every node is exactly what it says.
Memory: 6GB+ → 24MB for `id "hello"` with runArboricxToString kernel
Replace JSON-based bundle manifest with a CBOR-encoded format. The manifest
is now a canonical CBOR map with order-strict key decoding, raw 32-byte hash
payloads (instead of hex-encoded JSON), and compact binary representation.
This update includes an update to `decodeResult` that makes string
decoding far less aggressive. This also replaces the `!decode` REPL
command with `!output` to allow users to switch output format on the
fly. New tests are included for verifying decoding behavior; this group
needs to be fleshed out further.
Don't require/allow naming a module, instead require that the importer
names it. Allow importing into the local scope with the name !Local.
Simplify namespacing logic. Updates all tests to reflect these changes.
