EXPERIMENT: hand the construct the body as a real closure

ROOT CAUSE of the weaker design: "C has no closures" was taken as a fact about
what is possible. It is a fact about one grammar. Every C++ lambda, every Go
closure, every Rust closure compiles to a struct of captured values plus a
function pointer -- which is what is emitted here. Codegen emits C; it is not
written in C's syntax, and the distinction is the whole difference between a
construct that can only decide whether to repeat and one that controls
invocation.

It would also have crippled the JS backend, which has closures natively, for a
limit that applies only to the C one.

PREDICTIONS AND RESULTS
  1 env struct + thunk taking void*                        TRUE
  2 fails to compile: struct redefinition                  FALSE -- C allows the
    inner declaration to shadow. Prediction wrong; C is more permissive than
    assumed. A different real defect surfaced instead: a wrap with no exit
    construct emitted `(EL_STR("f"), EL_STR(""), __r);` -- a call to an empty
    target -- because has_exit was reused as "needs a wrapper" and the exit line
    was emitted unconditionally. Fixed.
  3 compiles when the target is declared in El             FALSE -- and this is
    the root cause worth keeping: El has ONE type, el_val_t = int64_t. El's type
    system cannot describe a callable, so `extern fn` and the real signature
    cannot be made to agree in El's own vocabulary. The fix is not a cast:
    codegen DEFINES the wrap calling convention, so codegen emits the extern
    declaration. The convention is not El-expressible; it is emitted.
  4 target controls invocation, 0..N times                 TRUE
  5 existing @manager output byte-identical                TRUE
  6 compiler fixpoint holds                                TRUE
  7 emitting the convention makes it compile               TRUE

MEASURED
  base(5) wrapped by a target that invokes the body twice and sums -> 10
  never_runs(5) wrapped by a target that never invokes it        -> 999

Neither is expressible by "decide whether to repeat". This supersedes the
repeats_body experiment on experiment/repeats-body, which was built around the
mistaken limit.

lang/el-compiler/src/codegen.el

@@ -3254,6 +3254,84 @@ fn cg_exit_target(stmt: Map<String, Any>) -> String {
     found
 }
 
+fn cg_wrap_target(stmt: Map<String, Any>) -> String {
+    let wdl = stmt["decorators"]
+    let n_wdl: Int = native_list_len(wdl)
+    let wi = 0
+    let found: String = ""
+    while wi < n_wdl {
+        if str_eq(found, "") {
+            let wd = native_list_get(wdl, wi)
+            let wdn: String = wd["name"]
+            let wt: String = decorator_wrap(wdn)
+            if !str_eq(wt, "") { let found = wt }
+        }
+        let wi = wi + 1
+    }
+    found
+}
+
+fn cg_wrap_construct(stmt: Map<String, Any>) -> String {
+    let wdl = stmt["decorators"]
+    let n_wdl: Int = native_list_len(wdl)
+    let wi = 0
+    let found: String = ""
+    while wi < n_wdl {
+        if str_eq(found, "") {
+            let wd = native_list_get(wdl, wi)
+            let wdn: String = wd["name"]
+            let wt: String = decorator_wrap(wdn)
+            if !str_eq(wt, "") { let found = wdn }
+        }
+        let wi = wi + 1
+    }
+    found
+}
+
+// params_to_env_fields / params_to_env_init / params_to_env_args — the captured
+// environment. This IS the closure: a struct of captured values, a function
+// pointer that takes it, and the pair handed to the wrap target.
+fn params_to_env_fields(params: [Any]) -> String {
+    let out: String = ""
+    let n: Int = native_list_len(params)
+    let i = 0
+    while i < n {
+        let p = native_list_get(params, i)
+        let pn: String = p["name"]
+        let out = out + " el_val_t " + pn + ";"
+        let i = i + 1
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+fn params_to_env_init(params: [Any]) -> String {
+    let out: String = ""
+    let n: Int = native_list_len(params)
+    let i = 0
+    while i < n {
+        let p = native_list_get(params, i)
+        let pn: String = p["name"]
+        if i > 0 { let out = out + ", " }
+        let out = out + pn
+        let i = i + 1
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+fn params_to_env_args(params: [Any]) -> String {
+    let out: String = ""
+    let n: Int = native_list_len(params)
+    let i = 0
+    while i < n {
+        let p = native_list_get(params, i)
+        let pn: String = p["name"]
+        if i > 0 { let out = out + ", " }
+        let out = out + "__e->" + pn
+        let i = i + 1
+    }
+    out
+}
+
 fn cg_exit_construct(stmt: Map<String, Any>) -> String {
     let xdl = stmt["decorators"]
     let n_xdl: Int = native_list_len(xdl)
@@ -3321,7 +3399,10 @@ fn cg_fn(stmt: Map<String, Any>) -> Void {
     // exactly as before, byte for byte.
     let exit_target: String = cg_exit_target(stmt)
     let exit_construct: String = cg_exit_construct(stmt)
-    let has_exit: Bool = !str_eq(exit_target, "")
+    let wrap_target: String = cg_wrap_target(stmt)
+    let wrap_construct: String = cg_wrap_construct(stmt)
+    let has_wrap: Bool = !str_eq(wrap_target, "")
+    let has_exit: Bool = !str_eq(exit_target, "") || has_wrap
     if has_exit {
         emit_line("static el_val_t __el_body_" + fn_name + "(" + params_c + ") {")
     } else {
@@ -3353,11 +3434,30 @@ fn cg_fn(stmt: Map<String, Any>) -> Void {
     // The wrapper: guards, entry injection, the body call, then the exit
     // injection, which receives the result so it can observe what the fn
     // actually returned.
+    if has_wrap {
+        // Codegen defines the wrap calling convention, so codegen declares it.
+        // El has ONE type -- el_val_t = int64_t -- so El's own `extern fn` cannot
+        // describe a callable, and asking it to produces an int/pointer
+        // mismatch. The convention is not El-expressible; it is emitted.
+        emit_line("extern el_val_t " + wrap_target + "(el_val_t, el_val_t, el_val_t(*)(void*), void*);")
+        emit_line("struct __env_" + fn_name + " { " + params_to_env_fields(params) + " };")
+        emit_line("static el_val_t __thunk_" + fn_name + "(void* __v) {")
+        emit_line("  struct __env_" + fn_name + "* __e = (struct __env_" + fn_name + "*)__v; (void)__e;")
+        emit_line("  return __el_body_" + fn_name + "(" + params_to_env_args(params) + ");")
+        emit_line("}")
+    }
     if has_exit {
         emit_line("el_val_t " + fn_name + "(" + params_c + ") {")
         cg_entry_seam(stmt, fn_name)
+        if has_wrap {
+            emit_line("  struct __env_" + fn_name + " __env = { " + params_to_env_init(params) + " };")
+            emit_line("  el_val_t __r = " + wrap_target + "(EL_STR(" + c_str_lit(fn_name) + "), EL_STR(" + c_str_lit(wrap_construct) + "), __thunk_" + fn_name + ", &__env);")
+        } else {
             emit_line("  el_val_t __r = __el_body_" + fn_name + "(" + params_to_call_args(params) + ");")
+        }
+        if !str_eq(exit_target, "") {
             emit_line("  " + exit_target + "(EL_STR(" + c_str_lit(fn_name) + "), EL_STR(" + c_str_lit(exit_construct) + "), __r);")
+        }
         emit_line("  return __r;")
         emit_line("}")
     }
@@ -4232,6 +4332,27 @@ fn decorator_exit(name: String) -> String {
     state_get("__dec_exit_" + name)
 }
 
+// A WRAP construct receives the body as a CLOSURE and decides how, whether, and
+// how many times to invoke it.
+//
+//     target(<fn>, <construct>, el_val_t (*body)(void*), void* env) -> el_val_t
+//
+// C has no closure SYNTAX. That is not the same as C being unable to express a
+// closure: every C++ lambda, every Go closure, every Rust closure compiles to a
+// struct of captured values plus a function pointer, which is exactly what is
+// emitted here. Taking "C has no closures" as a fact about what is possible,
+// rather than about one grammar, produces a strictly weaker construct that can
+// only decide whether to repeat — no timeout, no rollback-and-retry, no
+// parallel, no memoize-on-arguments. It would also have crippled the JS backend,
+// which has closures natively, for a limit in the C one.
+fn declare_wrap(name: String, wraps: String) -> Void {
+    state_set("__dec_wrap_" + name, wraps)
+}
+
+fn decorator_wrap(name: String) -> String {
+    state_get("__dec_wrap_" + name)
+}
+
 // scan_declared_decorators — token-level pre-pass registering every construct
 // the program declares. Runs once per module alongside scan_routes, because
 // the streaming backend discards per-fn ASTs and there is no whole-program AST
@@ -4246,6 +4367,8 @@ fn scan_declared_decorators(tokens: [Any]) -> Void {
     let pending_guard: String = ""
     let has_pending_x: Bool = false
     let pending_exit: String = ""
+    let has_pending_w: Bool = false
+    let pending_wrap: String = ""
     let pos: Int = 0
     let going: Bool = true
     while going {
@@ -4296,6 +4419,10 @@ fn scan_declared_decorators(tokens: [Any]) -> Void {
                                 let has_pending_x = true
                                 let pending_exit = native_list_get(args, 1)
                             }
+                            if str_eq(dkind, "wraps_body") {
+                                let has_pending_w = true
+                                let pending_wrap = native_list_get(args, 1)
+                            }
                         }
                     }
                     let pos = p
@@ -4314,6 +4441,10 @@ fn scan_declared_decorators(tokens: [Any]) -> Void {
                             declare_exit(fname, pending_exit)
                             let has_pending_x = false
                         }
+                        if has_pending_w {
+                            declare_wrap(fname, pending_wrap)
+                            let has_pending_w = false
+                        }
                         let pos = pos + 2
                     } else {
                         let pos = pos + 1