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bigmerge c6ba0677f0 log v1 experiments: nineteen cycles, organised by the method that produced them
cycles/    one file per Ishikawa -> scientific method -> Six Sigma loop, named
           for the DEFECT not the fix, carrying the commit record as written at
           the time
findings/  what the cycles produced, cross-cut: live bugs, architecture answers,
           and defects in my own measurement

The organising finding is that predictions which came back FALSE produced every
significant result. Eleven of sixty-one failed, and those eleven found: that the
arity table was not drifted but 40% incomplete; that the AST traversal is
irreducible and only rules and judgments move; that guards could refuse through
the seam after all; and that routing el_bin_lookup through the gate did NOT fix
the SIGSEGV, because the fallback strlen was the hazard -- a wrong fix I would
otherwise have shipped as verified.

One cycle was run without committing predictions first and had to be discarded
as rigged. It is kept, in full, as 18-async-half-expressible.md.
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no namespacing at all

One Ishikawa → scientific method → Six Sigma loop. The record below is the commit message as written at the time, before the outcome was known to anyone reading this file.

Record — 79f6cb7

ANSWER: if the partition is a neighbourhood, does linking survive?

The question is premature, and measuring says why. El's partition is a
FILESYSTEM PATH, not a neighbourhood, and there is no namespacing at all.

MEASURED
  import is textual inlining (resolve_imports), guarded against double
  inclusion by a __elc_imp__:<path> state key
  when a .elh header exists the header is inlined instead and the .el is marked
  seen, so symbols resolve at C link time -- so linking IS real, delegated to C
  two modules defining `helper` emit two C functions into one translation unit

So linking barely survives the PATH partition. Whether it survives a
neighbourhood partition cannot be asked yet.

A DIAGNOSTIC REGRESSION I CAUSED, found by asking this question. cc does catch
the collision, but reports:

    error: redefinition of '__el_body_helper'
    error: redefinition of '__env_helper'
    error: redefinition of '__thunk_helper'
    error: redefinition of 'helper'

The user's own function is FOURTH. The first three are generated symbols
introduced by the unconditional-wrapper pass earlier today -- before it, there
was one clear message. Repaired by catching the collision at El level instead:

    duplicate definition: 'helper' is defined 2 times — El has no namespacing,
    so imported modules share one global scope

LIMIT, stated rather than hidden: textual inlining destroys file provenance. By
the time codegen runs there is one source string, so the message can say WHICH
name collides but not which files. Naming a.el and b.el needs provenance
threaded through resolve_imports.

104/104 native, 4/4 definitions_query.sh, the compiler itself reports clean,
fixpoint ok.

Record — f23cb2b

answer the module question: the partition is a path, and there is no namespacing