# Cycles

Each is one `Ishikawa → scientific method → Six Sigma` loop, run in an isolated
worktree so a wrong answer cost nothing. Named for the **defect**, not the fix.

| # | Cycle | Root cause | Predictions | Landed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | [constructs-have-nowhere-to-be](01-constructs-have-nowhere-to-be.md) | a construct had nothing to BE, so its meaning lived in the emitter | 3/3 | yes |
| 02 | [a-construct-cannot-refuse](02-a-construct-cannot-refuse.md) | injection discards the target's result; no form said no | 4/4 | yes |
| 03 | [the-wrapper-was-conditional](03-the-wrapper-was-conditional.md) | exit injection needed compile-time knowledge only because the wrapper was conditional | 3/4 | yes |
| 04 | [c-has-no-closure-syntax](04-c-has-no-closure-syntax.md) | "C has no closures" taken as a fact about what is possible | 5/7 | yes |
| 05 | [the-emitter-discards-what-it-knows](05-the-emitter-discards-what-it-knows.md) | codegen sees every construct relation and throws it away | 5/5 | branch |
| 06 | [the-crossing-resolves-at-emission](06-the-crossing-resolves-at-emission.md) | the binary has no table to consult | 3/4 | yes |
| 07 | [invocation-is-not-composable](07-invocation-is-not-composable.md) | the wrapper called the target directly | 5/5 | yes |
| 08 | [the-emitter-adjudicates](08-the-emitter-adjudicates.md) | a prohibition had nowhere to live but a `#error` | 4/5 | yes |
| 09 | [policy-inside-the-compiler](09-policy-inside-the-compiler.md) | a program cannot declare its own restrictions, so the tier policy was compiled in | 4/5 | yes |
| 10 | [a-second-copy-of-the-header](10-a-second-copy-of-the-header.md) | builtin arity hand-maintained beside `el_runtime.h` | 4/5 | yes |
| 11 | [one-type-erases-the-return](11-one-type-erases-the-return.md) | `el_val_t` means the header cannot say `now()` returns an Instant | 4/5 | yes |
| 12 | [judgment-lives-with-knowledge](12-judgment-lives-with-knowledge.md) | the emitter knows the types, so it also judged them | 5/5 | yes |
| 13 | [thirty-five-return-types](13-thirty-five-return-types.md) | `is_int_call` hardcoded what drives `+` dispatch | 6/6 | yes |
| 14 | [keywords-that-reserve-nothing](14-keywords-that-reserve-nothing.md) | 5 of 46 keywords consumed by no path | 6/6 | yes |
| 15 | [no-namespacing-at-all](15-no-namespacing-at-all.md) | `import` is textual inlining; every name is global | 4/4 | yes |
| 16 | [tokens-carry-no-position](16-tokens-carry-no-position.md) | a token was `(kind, value)`, so no diagnostic could name a place | 6/6 | yes |
| 17 | [annotations-are-never-checked](17-annotations-are-never-checked.md) | the annotation feeds dispatch and is never verified | 6/6 | branch |
| 18 | [async-half-expressible](18-async-half-expressible.md) | **first attempt was DOGMA** — no predictions, rigged test | 4/4 (2nd) | branch |
| 19 | [a-convention-is-not-a-gate](19-a-convention-is-not-a-gate.md) | `looks_like_heap_obj` is static, so every type re-derives it | 6/7 | yes |