Auditing the remaining cts baseline for R7 exposed real contract gaps hiding
among the model residue — all fixed to reference behavior:
- stale no-ratio-era stubs: numerator/denominator now work over jolt's exact
rationals (non-ratio is the Ratio cast failure); rational? includes decimals
- casts and pending: peek/pop demand an IPersistentStack (pop nil is nil),
realized? demands an IPending (a plain list/range throws), transient demands
an editable COLLECTION (non-colls throw; the RFC 0003 sorted/list/seq
superset keeps the copy-on-write fallback), empty on a plain record throws
- nil and empties: (nth nil i) is nil, (nth nil i d) is d, a nil index is NPE,
keys/vals of anything empty are nil, (conj nil) is nil
- lookups: contains? on a string is index-only (other keys IAE), get on an
array is lenient (nth still throws), a VECTOR invocation has nth semantics
(([1 2] 5) throws — call position and jolt-invoke both)
- into only transients editable collections; a PersistentQueue/sorted target
folds through conj (RT's IEditableCollection split)
- numbers: number?/num accept BigDecimal, quot/rem throw on an Infinite/NaN
quotient, even?/odd? demand integers
- ordering: keywords compare namespace-first with nil first (Symbol.compareTo)
- misc: run! honors reduced, eval self-evaluates non-form values, intern
demands an existing namespace, counted? excludes strings, seqable? includes
arrays, shuffle rejects maps, sort-by rejects a collection comparator,
when-let demands one binding pair, case*/deftype*/letfn*/reify*/& are
special symbols
Two mis-certified corpus rows fixed (they threw on the JVM too and hid in the
tolerated bucket): a raw \d string escape and duplicate literal map keys.
SPEC.md gains the baseline-traceability section: every one of the 146
remaining suite failures maps to a documented divergence (integer-box,
no-single-float, RFC 0003 transients, seq/chunking model, stm-refs,
parse-uuid strictness, vec-array adoption). cts baseline 5955 -> 6042 pass,
5 errors, 30 namespaces. 9 JVM-certified corpus rows.
The reader now rejects what the JVM reader rejects: a token that starts
like a number but doesn't parse is NumberFormatException (1a, 08, 0x2g,
2r2 — never a symbol); ratio parts are digit runs (1/-1 invalid) with a
zero denominator throwing ArithmeticException; empty ns/name parts are
invalid tokens (:, ::, foo/, /foo) while /, ns//, and :/ stay valid;
duplicate map keys and set elements throw at read; unsupported string
escapes and octal escapes past \377 throw; a stray close delimiter is
'Unmatched delimiter'; \r ends line comments. #inst validates its
calendar fields progressively (leap years included) and #uuid demands
canonical hex. 1-arg symbol splits its ns at the FIRST slash
(Symbol.intern): (symbol "foo/bar/baz") is foo/"bar/baz".
clojure.edn gets its own strict seam (__read-form-edn): auto-resolved
keywords are invalid there, every #_ discarded form validates through the
same :readers/:default pipeline (an unreadable tagged element throws even
when discarded), built-in tags win over :default, M literals construct
BigDecimals, lists satisfy list?, and EOF honors :eof — an opts map
without :eof makes end-of-input an error.
clojure.edn-test.read-string goes 246 pass / 46 fail / 5 errors -> 297/0/0
(fully clean). cts baseline 5904 -> 5955 pass, 23 errors, 56 baselined
namespaces. 9 JVM-certified corpus rows; reader spec section.
byte/short/int/long/char silently wrapped or passed out-of-range values
through; the JVM range-checks (RT.byteCast family). One checked-cast
helper now carries the ranges: a double range-checks ITSELF before
truncating ((byte 1.1) is 1, (byte 127.000001) throws), NaN casts to 0,
ratios and bigdecs truncate, a non-number is CCE, and the throw carries
the JVM message. float range-checks against Float/MAX_VALUE. The
unchecked-* casts now genuinely wrap and sign-fold ((unchecked-byte 200)
is -56 — the old bit-and lost the sign) with doubles saturating like
Java's conversions; unchecked-long/int are host natives. double/float of
a bigdec convert instead of crashing. The no-single-float residue stays
accepted (SPEC.md).
Also fixes#290: a binary built by the SELF-CONTAINED joltc died with
'variable var-deref is not bound' when a namespace loaded at runtime.
The in-process build compiled flat.ss against a clean copy-environment,
which orphans every top-level define in locations the binary's runtime
eval can't see. It now compiles against the default interaction
environment (defines land in the real symbol cells, same as the legacy
fresh-Chez path) and a generated prologue pre-binds each kernel name the
runtime redefines to its kernel value, so the earliest boot reads match
the legacy path's primitive references. requiring-resolve is implemented
(the issue's dynamic-require pattern), and the release workflow smokes a
runtime require in a built binary.
Cast namespaces byte/short/int/long/char now fully clean; cts baseline
5805 -> 5857 pass, 67 baselined namespaces. 7 JVM-certified corpus rows.
General fixes from clojure.spec.alpha's test suite.
- (symbol a-var) returns the var's qualified symbol (clojure.spec.alpha/->sym).
- clojure.lang.Compiler/demunge reverses Clojure's name munging
("clojure.core$odd_QMARK_" -> clojure.core/odd?); spec's fn-sym uses it.
- clojure.lang.MultiFn .dispatchFn / .getMethod — spec's multi-spec walks a
multimethod through them.
- (.applyTo f args) applies a fn to a seq of args (spec instrument).
Most of spec.alpha's conform/explain/describe suite passes. Remaining gaps:
explain-data's :pred for a BARE fn predicate (jolt fns don't carry their defining
symbol, so fn-sym can't recover it), #inst form rendering, and instrument — follow-up.
make test green (+3 corpus rows, 0 new divergences), runtime only (no re-mint).
Running clojure.tools.reader's own suite on jolt surfaced a batch of general
gaps (all runtime, JVM-certified, no re-mint — reader.ss is loaded at runtime
and jolt-core has no octal literals, so selfhost holds):
Reader:
- (load "rel") resolves a non-/ path against the current namespace's directory,
like Clojure — (load "common_tests") from clojure.tools.reader-test loads
clojure/tools/common_tests.clj. Was resolved against the roots directly.
- Octal integer literals: 042 reads as 34, not decimal 42; octal string escapes
(\377 is one char, not \0 + "00"). \oNNN char octal already worked.
- (symbol nil name) now equals (symbol name) and the reader literal — a nil
namespace is the #f no-ns sentinel, not jolt-nil (jolt= compares ns by equal?).
clojure.test:
- thrown-with-msg? honors the class hierarchy (instance?) before falling back to
a simple-name match, so (thrown-with-msg? RuntimeException ...) matches an
ExceptionInfo, like thrown? already did.
Host interop (java layer):
- java.util.regex: Pattern.matcher / Matcher.matches / .group / .groupCount /
.find, and Pattern/compile.
- clojure.lang: RT/map, PersistentList/create, PersistentHashSet/createWithCheck.
- java.lang.Character: digit / isDigit / isWhitespace / valueOf.
- java.util.LinkedList (Deque surface over the ArrayList backing); ArrayList /
LinkedList are now seqable.
- BigInteger 2-arg ctor (string, radix) + .negate / .bitLength / .signum / .abs;
BigInt/fromBigInteger and Numbers/reduceBigInt (identity on jolt's exact ints).
Suite: reader_test 22/30, reader-edn_test 13/16. The remaining failures are
fundamental numeric-model differences (no BigDecimal type; BigInt and Long are
one exact-integer type) or need JVM reflection (record/ctor tagged literals via
getConstructors) — out of scope.
make test green (+8 corpus rows, 0 new divergences), shakesmoke byte-identical.
Follow-on to the core.logic relational-engine work. These clear every crash in
core.logic's constraint-logic-programming and unifier layers (33 errors -> 0) and
most of the value mismatches; the suite goes 504 -> 523 passing assertions. All
are general gaps, not core.logic-specific.
- symbols intern their ns/name strings (JVM Symbol.intern .intern()s them): two
separately-read `?a` symbols now share one name-string object. core.logic's
non-unique lvars compare names by identity (via (str sym)), so without this a
term's lvar and a constraint's lvar built from different `?a` reads never matched
and constraints silently never fired.
- (str x) of a single arg returns its rendering directly instead of copying through
string-append, and a symbol stringifies to its (interned) name — JVM (str x) is
x.toString(). Needed for the identity comparison above.
- a clojure.core-qualified special form dispatches correctly: syntax-quote
namespace-qualifies a macro like letfn to clojure.core/letfn (matching Clojure,
where it's a macro), and the analyzer now maps that back to the special form
instead of treating it as an invoke of a nil var. core.logic's fnc/defnc emit
(clojure.core/letfn ...). Re-mint.
- (disj nil ...) is nil (JVM), instead of crashing in the set path — core.logic's
constraint store does (disj (get km v) id) where the get can be nil.
corpus.edn: 4 JVM-certified rows. make test + shakesmoke green, 0 new divergences,
self-host fixpoint holds.
Six correctness fixes, each a general gap (not hiccup-specific):
- deftype is not a map. jolt treated every deftype instance as a map
(map?/record?/seqable over its fields); in Clojure only a defrecord is
map-like, a bare deftype is an opaque object. defrecord now marks its type;
map?/record?/coll?/seq/empty? gate on it, while a deftype implementing a
collection interface still dispatches through its methods.
- cross-ns extend-protocol on an imported deftype. register-method built the
type tag from the *calling* ns + bare name, so (extend-protocol P Raw …) in
one ns missed a Raw value defined in another. A simple-name index resolves
the bare name to the type's real tag (local ns still wins).
- str vs print. str of a collection is its readable form (nested strings
quoted: (str ["x"]) => ["x"]); print leaves them raw. jolt defined print
as str, conflating the two. Split via a __print1 seam.
- clojure.test thrown? now honors the exception hierarchy (instance?), so
(thrown? IllegalArgumentException …) matches an ArityException subclass.
- java.net.URI is value-equal (= and hash by string form).
- clojure.walk/macroexpand-all was missing; an unresolved qualified var made
the analyzer report "Unknown class walk".
deftype/defrecord + print are seed sources, re-minted. hiccup 365->381 of its
own suite; the rest are charset-encoding / var-meta niches.
jolt-str-render-one and instance-check were each extended by a chain of
set!-wrapping closures spread across ~10 and ~5 host files, so the real
behavior of either was scattered and load-order-dependent. Give each a
registry the base file owns: converters.ss/records-interop.ss define the
registry plus a register-* helper, and each extending file registers one arm
instead of capturing %prev and set!-ing the global.
str-render arms are type-disjoint; instance-check arms run newest-first (the
old outermost-wins order) and may return 'pass to defer. The string-token ->
symbol normalization the natives-array arm did for every inner arm moves to
the dispatcher head; array tokens stay strings for that arm to decide.
jolt-ogib.14. Runtime-only shims, no re-mint.
Rename src/jolt -> stdlib (the runtime-loaded layer; jolt-core stays the
seed-baked layer) and update the loader / emit-image / doc paths. Drop dead
code: the spike/ experiments, the duplicate clojuredocs-export.edn (json moves
to tools/), the Janet-era jolt.http binding, and the orphaned
persistent_vector.clj whose ns/path didn't even match.
Strip porting residue from comments and docstrings across host/chez, jolt-core,
stdlib, tests, and docs: internal issue ids, "Phase N" markers, and the "vs
Janet" historical exposition, leaving present-tense descriptions and the real
JVM-Clojure semantic contrasts. Same pass over the corpus suite labels. The seed
is unchanged (docstrings/comments aren't emitted), so the self-host fixpoint and
corpus are untouched.
Port tools/spec_coverage.py off the dead janet probe to bin/joltc and regenerate
coverage.md; drop the dead :host/janet rule from certify.clj and regenerate the
conformance profile. Add docs/host-interop.md (the JVM shims and how to register
your own host class from a library) and a writing-style note in CLAUDE.md.
Stabilize the four racy concurrency corpus cases (future-cancel and agent
send/send-off): give the future a sleeping body and the agent a slow action, so
cancel reliably catches an in-flight future and deref reliably reads the
pre-update snapshot. They certify deterministically now, so drop their :flaky
allowlist entries and the orphaned legend.
Shake-out from the conformance-library sweep. Host-side fixes (runtime .ss,
no re-mint) plus one analyzer change (re-minted):
- Exception fidelity: ex-info and host-constructed throwables (RuntimeException.
etc.) now carry their JVM class, so (class e), instance? across the exception
hierarchy, .getMessage, and clojure.test thrown?/thrown-with-msg? all work.
- .getBytes returns a seqable/countable byte-array and honors UTF-16/UTF-32;
String. decodes them. ->bytevector accepts byte-arrays (Base64).
- Universal .getClass / .toString / .indexOf / .lastIndexOf on any value/seq.
- record? uses the host jrec? predicate (the old (get x :jolt/deftype) crashed
on a sorted-map by invoking its comparator).
- extend-protocol to abstract host types (clojure.lang.Fn/IFn/APersistentVector,
java.net.URI) dispatches.
- New host classes: clojure.lang.PersistentQueue, java.util.ArrayList,
java.net.URI, java.io.File / java.util.UUID ctors, Double/Float ctors+statics,
regex instance? Pattern, System/setProperty.
- *assert* / *print-readably* are real settable/bindable vars.
- (symbol "ns/name") splits the namespace at the last slash.
- letfn fn params desugar destructuring (analyzer; re-minted).
unit.edn gains exinfo/hostobj/queue/hostctor/destructure regression rows.
Rephrase comments that pointed at deleted Janet files (emit.janet, the seed
sources, 'the Janet back end punts ...') to present-tense descriptions of the
Chez behavior. Comment/docstring-only; the self-host fixpoint is unchanged
(comments don't affect the compiled seed).
Delete five files that were Janet-host shims with no Chez path: clojure.java.io
(provided natively by host/chez/io.ss), and jolt.{nrepl,png,interop,shell}
(the janet.* bridge, os/shell, janet.net — none exist on Chez).
jolt-cf1q.6
corpus.edn :expected is now the value reference JVM Clojure produces, set by the
new test/conformance/regen-corpus.clj (one JVM process, per-row thread watchdog).
167 rows moved to the JVM value: ratios (/ 1 2)=>1/2, doubles (double 3)=>3.0,
shared-heap concurrency (the future/pmap/agent cases), clojure.math doubles. The
JVM is the spec; jolt is measured against it.
known-divergences.edn shrinks to the rows whose JVM value is an opaque host object
that can't round-trip to source (Java arrays, transients, atoms, beans, proxies,
chunks all print as #object[..@addr]) plus (fn* foo) and a few racy concurrency
cases (:flaky). The zero-janet gate's allowlist becomes the set of host gaps vs the
JVM spec (no Class/array/BigDecimal, :jolt reader, jolt's own printing).
Math/clojure.math sqrt/pow/floor/trig now return doubles (Chez returns exact for
exact args, e.g. (sqrt 9)=>3); JVM always returns a double.
extract-corpus.janet no longer writes corpus.edn unless asked (the test runner
imported it and was silently overwriting the JVM corpus with the spec sources'
placeholder answers). The prelude parity gate is deleted — the zero-janet spine +
certify.clj are the oracles.
zero-janet 2678 (0 new divergences), certify 0 new / 0 stale, emit-test 330/330.
jolt was all-flonum (one :number type, inherited from Janet whose only number
type is a double). The Chez runtime has a full numeric tower, so the zero-Janet
path now carries it = JVM Clojure semantics:
(/ 1 2) => 1/2 (exact Ratio, was 0.5)
(integer? 3) => true (integer? 3.0) => false (float? 3.0) => true
(ratio? (/ 1 2)) => true (= 3 3.0) => false (== 3 3.0) => true
(+ 1 2) => 3 (exact) (/ 1.0 2) => 0.5 (double)
jolt= was already exactness-aware (values.ss) and == is value-equality, so
=/== match the JVM split. The reader preserves exactness (integer literals exact,
a/b ratios exact rationals, decimals/exponents flonums); backend_scheme emit-const
renders exact ints/ratios and flonums faithfully; the value-position arithmetic,
count, int, compare, bit ops, parseLong, string .length/.indexOf, range,
timestamps, and array bytes return exact integers (= JVM int/long) instead of
coercing to flonum. double/parseDouble/clojure.math floor|ceil|signum stay double.
Only the zero-Janet path carries the tower (the Janet reader loses exactness into
a double before emit). The prelude/all-flonum path is unaffected for compiled code;
the runtime reader is shared, so a couple of all-flonum reader assertions become
value (==) assertions. ~16 numeric corpus cases now give the JVM tower value vs the
Janet-era :expected and are allowlisted as tower divergences (Chez == reference
JVM) pending the corpus flip to JVM (jolt-ecz0). No BigDecimal type (1M).
Re-minted. zero-janet 2682 (floor 2698->2682, the reclassified tower cases), 0 new
divergences; fixpoint 10/10, bootstrap 6/6, spine 35/35, cli 49/49; Janet gate 155
files 0 failed.
Point the Chez-HOSTED analyzer at the full parity corpus (read -> analyze ->
emit -> eval, all on Chez, no Janet) and close the divergences so the
self-hosted compiler is faithful: 0 divergences, 2159/2494 pass.
Keystone: the on-Chez emitter ran with prelude-mode off, so every call to a
non-native clojure.core fn tripped the "unsupported stdlib fn" out-of-subset
guard. The zero-Janet spine always has the full prelude loaded, so turn
prelude mode on in compile-eval.ss (22% -> 84% pass on a sample).
Faithfulness fixes (each was the Chez host/reader diverging from the Janet
analyzer; fixed in the keeper, not the seed):
- emit-const read a char's codepoint via (get v :ch) — the Janet rep; on Chez a
char is native. Route through a new form-char-code host-contract fn (41 cases).
- next over a lazy seq returned the empty-list terminator (truthy), not nil, so
butlast and other (if (next s) ...) loops ran one step too far — broke
some->/some->>/cond->>.
- reader: radix literals (2r1010/16rFF/36rZ), #^ deprecated metadata, ^meta on
collections (lowers to a runtime with-meta form like the Janet reader),
map-literal source order (values eval left-to-right), and nested syntax-quote
over a literal collapses at read time.
- keyword "a/b" splits into ns/name like the seed (destructure {:keys [x/y]}).
- form-syntax-quote-lower implemented on Chez (was a throwing stub).
7 divergences allowlisted: the same print-method-multimethod / host-class set
the prelude gate defers. 328 crashes remain = shared runtime breadth (host
interop, missing core fns, eval/load-string) deferred to Phase 4 / jolt-r8ku,
not compiler faithfulness.
Gate + speedup: test/chez/run-corpus-zero-janet.janet (floor 2159). Its batched
runner (driver/eval-corpus-zero-janet) runs every case in ONE chez process —
load the runtime once, guard + reset the user namespace per case — instead of a
fresh process per case: 1379s -> 1.6s.
spine-test 35/35; Janet gate 151/0; prelude parity 2295/2494 unchanged, 0 new
divergences.
Cross-compile jolt.ir + jolt.analyzer + jolt.backend-scheme to Scheme def-var!
forms via the existing Janet emit pipeline (driver/emit-compiler-image) and run
them ON CHEZ over a Scheme jolt.host impl. A macro-free Clojure expression now
compiles and runs with no Janet in the loop: read (reader.ss) -> analyze
(jolt.analyzer on Chez) -> IR -> emit (jolt.backend-scheme on Chez) -> eval.
host/chez/host-contract.ss is the jolt.host contract on Chez (the portable seam
the cross-compiled analyzer/emitter call): form-* over the Chez reader's forms,
resolve-global/compile-ns/host-intern!/late-bind? over the var-cell registry. ctx
is an opaque record carrying the compile ns. Native-op names are declare-var!'d
into clojure.core so +, *, <, ... classify as :var and the emitter's native-op
path lowers them. form-macro? is a #f stub and macro expansion / syntax-quote /
record hints are stubs for inc6b (runtime macros, jolt-r8ku).
host/chez/compile-eval.ss is the spine entry (read-string -> analyze -> emit ->
eval). driver gains emit-compiler-image / ensure-compiler-image (image caching)
and program-zero-janet / eval-zero-janet.
Two bugs fixed in the keeper, not reproduced:
- the Chez reader stores an unqualified symbol's ns as #f, but the analyzer tests
(nil? ns); hc-sym-ns normalizes #f/'() -> jolt-nil. Without it every handled
special (if/do/fn*) misanalyzed as a plain invoke.
- char (int->char) was missing from clojure.core on Chez; the emitter's
chez-str-lit needs it for keyword/string consts. Added jolt-char to converters.ss.
Gate: test/chez/spine-test.janet 15/15 (Chez-hosted analyzer value == Janet-hosted
oracle through the same emitter/RT; only the analysis host differs). Full Janet
gate green (150 files). driver.janet is in the prelude fingerprint so the cache key
moved; prelude content is unchanged. jolt-chez fingerprint/ensure-prelude made
public for the test harness.
Close the remaining Phase-2 stdlib parity gaps.
clojure.set: pure Clojure over core, so just added to the prelude stdlib tier
(driver.janet stdlib-ns-files + jolt-chez fingerprint), same as clojure.edn.
clojure.math: not a .clj on the seed (native math/ bindings via jolt-h79), so
Chez gets its own host/chez/math.ss def-var!ing each fn over Chez native flonum
math. The analyzer already knows the ns (api.janet install-clojure-math!), so
refs lower to var-deref. Also adds the missing 'long' coercion to converters.ss
(int's sibling; several math cases wrap in long).
clojure.pprint: dropped the 2-arity's (binding [*out* writer] ...). *out* isn't
a bindable var in jolt — printing routes through the host (dyn :out) seam, so
the binding never redirected anything; it only made the defn uncompilable, which
the seed tolerated via interpreter fallback. Chez has no fallback, so the whole
pprint defn died. Dropping it is behavior-preserving (writer was always ignored)
and lets pprint compile cleanly. Both corpus cases pass.
Corpus parity 2259 -> 2280, crashes 191 -> 170, 0 new divergences. Floor raised.
New unit test test/chez/_stdlib.janet (27/27). Full Janet gate green (147 files).
##Inf/##-Inf/##NaN were emitted to bare inf/-inf/nan, which are unbound symbols in
Chez. emit-const now lowers them to +inf.0/-inf.0/+nan.0. The -e/element printer
renders them inf/-inf/nan (Chez's number->string gives +inf.0), and str renders the
long Clojure forms Infinity/-Infinity/NaN. assoc! is now variadic ((assoc! t k v
& kvs)) like Clojure.
Prelude parity 1382 -> 1407/2497, 0 new divergences. str of inf INSIDE a collection
still wants the long form (needs the Phase-2 recursive str renderer), so
[inf inside coll] is allowlisted. Transducer arities and the cdr-on-()/\p{} regex
gaps are split out to jolt-kxsr/jolt-y1zq.
str/subs/vec/keyword/symbol/compare/int/double/gensym — host-coupled seed natives
the overlay assumes, now def-var!'d into clojure.core via host/chez/converters.ss
(loaded last, str reuses jolt-pr-str). Semantics match the seed: str-render-one
for str (nil->"", bare chars, regex source), the 3-way core-compare port, int
truncates. The symbol no-ns sentinel is #f to match emit's quoted-symbol lowering
(jolt-symbol #f "x"), so (= 'x (symbol "x")) holds — jolt= compares ns with strict
equal?, and jolt-nil vs #f would otherwise diverge.
Prelude parity 1220 -> 1326/2497, 0 new divergences. Floor raised to 1326; three
newly-reached *ns*/var-rendering cases added to the allowlist (Phase 2). run-prelude
and the per-case program file are now PID-unique so concurrent chez runs don't read
each other's half-written files.
