Round 3 of the seed shrink. To the overlay: identity, constantly, neg?,
even?, odd? (20-coll, ahead of their first in-tier uses), not= and unreduced
(00-syntax — the kernel and seq tiers use them), ==, ensure-reduced,
halt-when, parse-boolean, parse-uuid, newline, seque, array-seq, to-array-2d,
and the masking unchecked-byte/short/char/float/double coercions. parse-uuid
validates via re-matches over a new __make-uuid host binding (overlay source
can't write :jolt/type map literals). memfn moves to 30-macros as a working
macro over the .method call sugar instead of a fn that throws.
Behavior fixes toward Clojure, each with spec rows: == now throws on
non-numbers instead of comparing them, and halt-when is the canonical
::halt-map version (the halt value replaces the whole reduction result, no
double completion). list? and map-entry? stay in the seed — both are
representation-coupled (plist/tuple checks).
clojure-test-suite goes 4701 -> 4700: update.cljc expects
(update {:k 1} :k identity 1 2 3 4) to throw an arity error, and jolt fns
don't enforce fixed arity anywhere (pre-existing, language-wide — the seed's
Janet identity threw natively). Filed as jolt-6xn; fixing it should flip
several suite rows at once.
Jolt numbers don't overflow, so +'/-'/*'/inc'/dec' and the whole unchecked-*
family are just the checked ops — now one-line defs in core/20-coll.clj
instead of ~25 seed bindings. int? and num move the same way.
unchecked-divide-int now goes through quot, so dividing by zero throws like
the JVM instead of silently truncating infinity. unchecked-int/long gain
char handling via int, matching Clojure ((unchecked-int \a) => 97). The
masking byte/short/char coercions are not aliases and stay in the seed for
a later round.
Also drops a second duplicate set of unchecked defns that was shadowing the
first at module load.
Loading these libs via require worked (load-ns-source interprets, macros
expand lazily) but the same code inlined by uberscript routes through
eval-toplevel and compiled, surfacing four gaps:
- a ^{:map} metadata def name reads as (def (with-meta name m) v); the
analyzer died extracting the name (config.core's defonce env). It now
throws uncompilable so the interpreter, which handles it, takes over.
- declare was a no-op, so a compiled forward reference to a declared
name that collides with a janet root binding bound to the host fn
(selmer.parser's (declare parse) compiled to janet's 1-arg parse).
declare now expands to no-init defs, the interpreter interns them,
and the analyzer routes no-init def to the interpreter.
- class? was missing (selmer.util's exception macro calls it at
expansion time). Always false, like ratio? — no Class objects here.
- require of an unlocatable namespace silently left an empty ns behind,
deferring the failure to an unresolved symbol far from the cause. It
now throws like Clojure's FileNotFoundException. Namespaces entered
in-session count as loaded (Clojure puts them in *loaded-libs*), and
the SCI bootstrap opts out via :lenient-require? since its
clj-targeted requires can't all exist on this host.
ifn? (jolt-1vx) is the canonical IFn set in the overlay: fns, keywords,
symbols, maps (sorted included), sets, vectors, and vars — NOT lists. The
seed version said true for lists and false for struct maps and vars.
Mutable-mode caveat documented (vectors and lists share the array repr
there). 13 predicate rows.
Multimethod dispatch (jolt-heo) now collects EVERY isa-matching method key
and picks the dominant one — x dominates y when prefer-method'd over it or
(isa? x y) — and two matches with no dominant is an ambiguity ERROR, as in
Clojure. It used to take whichever key the table yielded first, silently
ignoring prefer-method. The prefers store upgrades to Clojure's
{x -> set-of-dominated} shape, shared between the dispatch closure and
prefer-method-setup via the var; prefers becomes a macro over a setup fn
(the store lives on the VAR — the multifn value can't carry it, so the old
fn read {} forever). 6 multimethod rows + the conformance row updated to
the canonical shape (335x3).
The reader (jolt-ou8) kept the pending KEY when a comment or #_ sits in a
map's VALUE slot: the old code dropped both, desyncing kv pairing — the
real value became the next key and the closing brace landed in value
position ('Unmatched closing brace'). Selmer's deps.edn (a '; for
development (REPL, etc)' comment between key and value) now parses; 6
reader rows incl. nested commented maps.
Gate: jpm exit 0, conformance 335x3, all tests passed.
test/spec/untested-vars-spec.janet adds 143 rows asserting jolt's documented
behavior for the whole implemented-untested category — primed arithmetic,
the array/aset/coercion stubs, unchecked-*, the chunk family, JVM-shape
stubs (class/bean/proxy/memfn as resolve-only or :throws), ns/REPL
machinery, and the misc seqs. tools/spec_coverage.py now checks each var as
a whole TOKEN in the test sources (call-position-only matching missed *1,
+', ., .., /, and bare transducer refs like cat).
Writing rows from probed truth surfaced five real bugs, all fixed:
- comp with a jolt-IFn stage silently returned nil ((comp seq :content)) —
raw Janet keyword application is not jolt invoke. comp is the canonical
overlay defn now (fixed-arity composed fn, so the hot 1-arg path is two
direct calls); the seed keeps a private td-comp only for the transducer
machinery. hof bench +9% vs native, the price of correct IFn dispatch.
- extend (the fn) was a nil-expanding stub MACRO shadowing any definition;
it's a real fn over register-method now, and extends? (a constant-false
stub) is real over extenders
- (.. x f g) hit the 'ClassName.' constructor branch (a name ending in a
dot) and died; .. is the canonical threading macro now
- aclone errored on pvecs; ns-interns/ns-imports returned live host tables
that count/seq reject (now structs)
Thread/sleep + Thread/yield land as Thread statics beside Math/: sleep parks
the WORKER's own event loop (each future thread has one), which makes timed
deref provably fire — futures-spec gains the timeout-fires, sleep-in-body,
and timed-out-future-still-completes rows. The futures impl itself already
ran on real OS threads (ev/spawn-thread + marshalled results); jolt-ejx was
stale.
Dashboard: implemented+tested 433 -> 564 of 694; implemented-untested and
missing-portable are both EMPTY. Gate: jpm exit 0, all tests passed.
The dashboard's missing-portable category is now EMPTY (was 35 when the issue
was filed; this session's io/leaf work had already landed most of them).
The final seven:
- extenders — ctx-capturing clojure.core fn over the protocol type-registry:
the type-tags implementing a protocol, as symbols; nil when none
- find-keyword — keyword: jolt keywords have no intern table, so it always
finds (babashka makes the same call)
- inst-ms* — the raw Inst method; one inst representation, so = inst-ms
- read+string — over the 50-io readers, which now expose :buf and :fill-fn;
returns [form exact-text-consumed], EOF throws or yields [eof-value ""]
with the 3-arity, works for string AND stdin readers
- with-local-vars — fresh free-standing var cells (__local-var seam) bound as
locals; var-get/var-set work on any cell
- with-open — canonical recursive expansion closing through the __close seam:
a map-like value's :close fn or a host file (no .close interop here);
nested closes run inner-first, finally runs on throw
- with-precision — body evaluates with precision/:rounding accepted and
ignored (doubles, no BigDecimal context) — documented divergence
30 new spec rows (test/spec/missing-vars-spec.janet); coverage.md
regenerated: implemented+tested 426 -> 433, missing-portable 7 -> 0.
Gate: jpm exit 0, all tests passed.
sort-by, rand-int, shuffle, random-uuid, char-escape-string, and
char-name-string move to 20-coll over the two host seams that stay (rand and
sort — they ARE the randomness/ordering primitives). Canonical upgrades ride
along: sort-by defaults its comparator to compare, so nil sorts FIRST (the
kernel fn used host ordering and put nil last); rand-int truncates toward
zero via int (the kernel fn floored, wrong for negative n); shuffle is a
pure-functional Fisher-Yates over vector assoc and rejects non-collections
(a string is seqable but not shuffleable, as on the JVM — the honest gate
caught that one); random-uuid builds over rand-int and validates through
parse-uuid; the char tables are char-keyed Clojure maps (Clojure's shape —
the seed keeps its private code-keyed copies for pr-render).
22 new spec rows. Gate: jpm test exit 0 verified, suite 4698 >= 4660, bench
parity with main back-to-back (4733 vs 4817).
recompile-defns! is the defn analog of recompile-macros!: pre/at-kernel
overlay defns (00-syntax's destructure and friends; the kernel tier too in
interpret mode) load as interpreted closures, the evaluator stashes their fn
source on the var (:defn-src, scoped by a flag only api/load-core-overlay!
sets), and the end-of-init pass compiles them and swaps the var root. With
that in place, keys/vals/empty? — the fns the 00-syntax expanders call at
expansion time — move to the top of 00-syntax as raw fn* defs (canonical:
keys/vals project (seq m), so sorted maps come back in comparator order and
(keys {}) is nil; empty? keeps O(1) count dispatch with seq's cell check only
for the lazy/list fallback). The sorted tier drops its now-dead :keys/:vals
ops.
Correctness fixes that surfaced once the gate was run with a REAL exit code
(the previous 'jpm test | grep' gates reported grep's exit and masked spec
failures across #48-#50):
- map conj is strict again: a non-nil/non-map arg must be a 2-element vector
('Vector arg to map conj must be a pair'), and merge inherits it — the
batch-2 canonical merge had silently dropped the validation
- conj onto a lazy seq prepends (it fell into the MAP fallback); upstream
clojure.data/diff relies on (conj seq x) via set/union over keys, so diff
now matches Clojure exactly
- (seq {}) / (seq #{}) / empty phm are nil, not ()
- key/val are strict (a plain vector is not an entry); find mints a REAL
entry as the first entry of a one-entry map, nil values intact
- the sci avoid-method-too-large stub passes its registry map through
instead of returning a raw host table (strict conj rejected it; sci's
clojure-core registry is also no longer discarded)
Test updates: lazy-infinite pins take-nth realization at 5 (was 7 — the
canonical lazy impl realizes fewer); self-host asserts the analyzer IS loaded
in interpret mode (compiled expanders, PR #50) and is NOT in the
:compile-macros? false oracle. 18 new maps-spec rows.
Gate: jpm test exit 0 (verified directly, not through a pipe), conformance
326x3, suite 4698 >= 4660.
empty, assoc-in, and update-in move to 20-coll.clj as the canonical recursive
ports; interpose and take-nth move to the lazy tier WITH their canonical
transducer arities (volatile-based), so the seed's td-interpose/td-take-nth
helpers go too. (empty lazy-seq) is () now — the kernel fn returned a bare
host table for it.
keys/vals/empty? stay put for now: they're expander-coupled — 00-syntax's
when/and/or/cond/destructure expanders call them at expansion time, which
happens during the kernel-tier compile, before any later tier exists. They
move when early defns get the staged-recompile treatment macros already have.
26 new spec rows (incl. transducer arities through sequence/into and laziness
checks against (range)). Gate green: conformance 326x3, suite >= baseline,
full jpm test.
key/val/select-keys/zipmap/merge/merge-with/get-in/memoize/partial/
trampoline/some?/true?/false?/max/min/reverse move to 20-coll.clj as the
canonical Clojure definitions, plus find — which was previously missing from
jolt entirely (select-keys/merge-with/memoize build on it). Two behavior
fixes ride along: memoize now caches nil results (the kernel fn re-computed
them — canonical find-based impl), and conj of nil onto a map is a no-op as
in Clojure (it errored; the canonical merge relies on it). max/min keep the
JVM NaN behavior by construction (pairwise >/<). not= stays: the kernel tier
(subvec) uses it.
One new tier-ordering rule, learned the hard way: a tier may only use macros
from tiers that load BEFORE it — memoize's if-let (30-macros) broke compiled
init while interpret mode passed, because compile expands macros at tier
load and the interpreter expands lazily. Now documented in the migration
workflow note.
MIGRATION.md is gone — task tracking lives in beads (jolt-ded; the per-batch
workflow, tier-order rules, perf wall, and remaining candidates are in bd
memory core-migration-workflow). The doc's candidate lists had gone stale
against the actual seed anyway.
43 new spec rows. Gate green: conformance 326x3, suite >= baseline, full
jpm test, bench at parity with main back-to-back (4851 vs 4831 TOTAL).
Nine more seed leaves move to 20-coll.clj (verified leaf-by-leaf: defn +
core-bindings entry only, no internal callers). fnil is upgraded to Clojure's
canonical 2/3/4-arity — it patches only the first 1-3 arguments; the old
kernel fn patched every position it had a default for, which Clojure does
not. The rest carry their kernel semantics over unchanged (bigdec is a
double, numerator/denominator throw, supers is #{}, munge rewrites dashes).
16 new spec rows incl. the fnil arity-contract cases. Gate green:
conformance 326x3, suite 4577, full jpm test (2:18 — first full run with the
ctx image cache on main).
make-hierarchy/derive/underive/isa?/parents/ancestors/descendants are now
Clojure in the overlay — Clojure's own pure-map implementation: a hierarchy
is {:parents {tag #{..}} :ancestors {..} :descendants {..}}, the 3-arity
forms are PURE (derive returns a new hierarchy), and the 1/2-arity forms swap
a private global-hierarchy atom.
This fixes three correctness gaps the Janet kernel had: multi-parent derive
(the kernel's :parents held a single parent per tag), TRANSITIVE descendants
(the kernel tracked direct children only), and vector-pair isa?
((isa? [child1 child2] [parent1 parent2])). Cyclic and duplicate derives now
behave like Clojure (throw / no-op).
Multimethod dispatch was the kernel's only internal caller: defmulti-setup's
dispatch closure now calls the overlay's isa? through a lazily-resolved var
(cached per multimethod); a :hierarchy option is an atom (deref per dispatch,
matching Clojure's var semantics) or a plain hierarchy map. The Janet kernel
(types.janet) and the core-* wrappers are deleted.
20 new hierarchy spec rows (pure 3-arity incl. cycle/duplicate edges, global
+ dispatch incl. custom :hierarchy atoms). Gate green: conformance 326x3,
suite 4566 >= 4540, all batteries, bench in the session band.
The representation predicates (sequential?/associative?/counted?/indexed?/
reversible?/seqable?, boolean?/double?/float?/infinite?, the qualified/simple
ident predicates), the realization boundaries doall/dorun, list*, find,
realized?/force, pop, the print-str family, and rand-nth/random-sample are
now Clojure in 20-coll, expressed over the overlay's own predicates and
primitives — no Janet representations referenced.
Several got MORE correct in the move: dorun honors its bounded-n arity (the
seed ignored n); find works on vectors by index (contains? gives it free);
indexed? no longer claims seq results; seqable? no longer claims arbitrary
tagged tables (atoms were "seqable"); realized? reads the tagged slots via
the established get pattern.
Seed: 3427 -> ~3200 lines, 371 -> ~345 core-* fns. Gate green (conformance
326x3, suite 4569 >= 4540, stdlib battery, all specs+unit); bench in noise.
The names turn 2a's leak removal exposed as honestly missing, now proper:
- slurp/spit/flush (host-classified): path-based IO over Janet files; spit
takes :append; flush flushes *out*. printf prints formatted (no newline)
over the existing format. file-seq walks paths via two host dir primitives
through the overlay's tree-seq.
- ns-map / ns-unmap / ns-refers (ctx fns). ns-refers required fixing the
refer MODEL: refer/use/:refer now map the SOURCE VAR into the target ns
(the Clojure model) instead of copying its value into a new var — so
source-ns redefinitions propagate, the :macro flag travels for free, and
refers are identifiable by the var's home :ns.
- Thread-binding family: with-bindings*/with-bindings, bound-fn*/bound-fn,
bound?, thread-bound?, get-thread-bindings. The captured binding map is a
Janet struct keyed by the var tables — the exact frame representation
var-get reads — so it re-pushes correctly (a phm frame is invisible to
var lookup).
- load-string and eval interned as VALUES at the api layer (they need the
loader's compile-or-interpret routing); the eval special form still
handles direct calls.
Suite 4532 -> 4572 (baseline floor 4540 across timeout variance, clean 86),
conformance 326x3, stdlib battery, all specs+unit (+21 turn-2b rows).
Coverage: missing-portable 27 -> 10 (left: the *in*-model readers, the
with-local-vars/with-precision/extenders tail).
resolve-sym's last resort silently resolved any unknown Clojure symbol
against Janet's root environment — leaking Janet builtins with JANET
semantics into Clojure code: (type 1) was Janet's :number, (gensym) returned
Janet symbols (the long-documented (symbol (str (gensym))) macro landmine
existed BECAUSE of this), compare/slurp/int?/any? likewise. The explicit
janet/ prefix is the deliberate interop channel; the implicit fallback is
gone — an unresolved symbol is an error.
What the leak was masking, now proper interned vars:
- gensym: jolt's own (already existed, never interned) — returns real jolt
symbols; the macro landmine is dead
- compare: full Clojure total order (nil-first, numbers, strings, keywords,
symbols by ns/name, booleans, chars, uuid/inst, vectors by length then
elementwise; cross-type throws)
- type: :type metadata override, deftype/record tag as symbol, else a
taxonomy keyword (host-classified)
- int?: core-integer? — which had a latent bug the leak hid: (integer?
##Inf) was true (floor of inf is inf); NaN/infinities now excluded
- any?: constantly true (Clojure 1.9; SCI's namespaces.cljc needs it)
- jolt.interop/janet-type now uses the explicit (janet/type x) channel
- evaluator-test uses init (a bare make-ctx resolved EVERYTHING via the leak)
Suite 4470 -> 4532+ pass / 86-87 clean (proper compare unlocks the sort
files); baselines raised. Conformance 326x3 (+5 rows), +22 predicate spec
rows, stdlib battery green, all specs+unit. Coverage dashboard now counts
previously-leak-resolvable names honestly (missing-portable 19 -> 27).
#inst (jolt-rnh): an instant is an immutable tagged struct
{:jolt/type :jolt/inst :ms <epoch-millis>} — equality and map-key hashing by
INSTANT, so different offsets denoting the same moment are =. The reader
parses RFC3339 with Clojure's partial-timestamp defaults (#inst "2020" is
2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z) and errors on malformed input; inst?/inst-ms in
the overlay; pr-str prints the canonical
#inst "yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss.fff-00:00" and round-trips; str gives the bare
RFC3339 string. Self-evaluating in the evaluator (like uuid/chars).
Syntax-quote (jolt-l2a): a syntax-quoted self-evaluating literal (string,
number, boolean, nil, keyword, char) collapses to the literal at READ time,
matching Clojure's reader — so nested/adjacent backticks over literals are
inert: (= "meow" ```"meow") is true (jank pass-adjacent). Symbols still
qualify and collections still template. General nested syntax-quote over
non-literals remains UNVERIFIED in spec S25.
Tests: inst-spec (18 cases incl. partial defaults, offsets, round-trip),
+10 literal-collapse reader rows, +5 conformance rows (321x3). Spec
02-reader S20/S25 updated to normative. Suite stable 4470/86.
Fifteen vars from the spec coverage gap (docs/spec/coverage.md):
parse-long/parse-double/parse-boolean (strict validation; scan-number alone
accepts 0x10), newline, current-time-ms (host clock for time), update-keys/
update-vals (PHM base, collisions last-wins), partitionv/partitionv-all/
splitv-at (lazy seqs of vectors; splitv-at's tail stays a seq, matching the
reference), with-redefs/with-redefs-fn (roots restored on throw), time,
macroexpand (expand-1 to fixpoint), alias/ns-unalias (write BOTH alias stores
— require :as uses string-keyed :imports while ns-aliases reads :aliases;
split filed), ns-publics (symbol-keyed map; publics == interns, no privacy).
Three pre-existing bugs fixed along the way:
- (partition n step pad coll) misparsed pad as the coll and returned ()
- (require 'bare.symbol) rejected — only vector specs were accepted
- analyze-form leaked the interpreted analyzer's ns on a punt: a throw out of
the analyzer left current-ns=jolt.analyzer and :compile-ns set, so the
fallback interpretation resolved user vars against the wrong namespace
(bit (var user-sym) under compile mode)
And one overlay-authoring landmine documented in-code: a 20-coll fn must not
use 30-macros macros (with-redefs-fn's dotimes compiled as a forward ref that
resolved to the macro fn at runtime) — loop/recur instead.
Gate: conformance 316x3 (+14 rows), suite 4324 pass / 78 clean (was 4081/72;
parse_*/update_* files now contribute), baselines raised, all specs+unit,
fixpoint, self-host, sci, staged. Coverage: missing-portable 35 -> 20.
uuid support was broken end to end (jolt-6s2): random-uuid built malformed
strings ((string/format "%x") with no zero-padding, so hex groups came out
short, and no variant bits), uuid? was hardcoded false, the #uuid data reader
was identity (bare string), and parse-uuid didn't exist. Nothing tested it.
A UUID is now an immutable tagged struct {:jolt/type :jolt/uuid :str <lower>}
(make-uuid, types.janet) — struct value equality gives case-insensitive = and
map-key/set hashing for free, and the evaluator treats it as self-evaluating
(like chars). random-uuid emits a correct RFC 4122 v4 (zero-padded 8-4-4-4-12,
version nibble 4, variant 8-b). parse-uuid validates the canonical shape,
returns nil on a bad string, throws on a non-string (Clojure 1.11). uuid? is
an overlay tag predicate. str renders the bare string; pr-str renders
#uuid "..." and round-trips.
Tests: uuid-spec (30 cases: format, parse edge cases from the suite, value
semantics, reader literal), 6 conformance cases x3 modes. The suite's
parse_uuid/random_uuid/uuid_qmark files now contribute: 4049 -> 4074 pass,
71 clean files; baselines raised.
adds self-hosted compiler is functionally:
- The default compile path is the portable pipeline using jolt.analyzer (Clojure) → host-neutral IR → backend.janet.
- The analyzer is itself Clojure, compiled by jolt for true self-hosting.
- bootstrap-fixpoint passes (stage1 == stage2 == stage3): rebuilding the compiler on its own output.
- clojure.core is now self-hosted in the overlay.
- Stateful forms (defmacro/ns/deftype/defmulti/require/in-ns) are interpreted by design.
