merge: loops/apl — Phase 8 quick-wins, named fns, multi-axis, trains, perf

plans/apl-on-sx.md

@@ -135,6 +135,48 @@ and tightens loose ends.
   on error switches to the trap branch.  Define `apl-throw` and a small
   set of error codes; use `try`/`catch` from the host.
 
+### Phase 8 — fill the gaps left after end-to-end
+
+Phase 7 wired the stack together; Phase 8 closes deferred items, lets real
+programs run from source, and starts pushing on performance.
+
+- [x] **Quick-wins bundle** (one iteration) — three small fixes that each unblock
+  real programs:
+  - decimal literals: `read-digits!` consumes one trailing `.` plus more digits
+    so `3.7` tokenises as one number;
+  - `⎕←` (print) — tokenizer special-case: when `⎕` is followed by `←`, emit
+    a single `:name "⎕←"` token (don't split on the assign glyph);
+  - string values in `apl-eval-ast` — handle `:str` (parser already produces
+    them) by wrapping into a vector of character codes (or rank-0 string).
+- [x] **Named function definitions** — `f ← {⍺+⍵} ⋄ 1 f 2` and `2 f 3`.
+  - parser: when `:assign`'s RHS is a `:dfn`, mark it as a function binding;
+  - eval-ast: `:assign` of a dfn stores the dfn in env;
+  - parser: a name in fn-position whose env value is a dfn dispatches as a fn;
+  - resolver: extend `apl-resolve-monadic`/`-dyadic` with a `:fn-name` case
+    that calls `apl-call-dfn`/`apl-call-dfn-m`.
+- [x] **Multi-axis bracket indexing** — `A[I;J]` and `A[;J]` and `A[I;]`.
+  - parser: split bracket content on `:semi` at depth 0; emit
+    `(:dyad ⌷ (:vec I J) A)`;
+  - runtime: extend `apl-squad` to accept a vector of indices, treating
+    `nil` / empty axis as "all";
+  - 5+ tests across vector and matrix.
+- [x] **`.apl` files as actual tests** — `lib/apl/tests/programs/*.apl` are
+  currently documentation. Add `apl-run-file path → array` plus tests that
+  load each file, execute it, and assert the expected result. Makes the
+  classic-program corpus self-validating instead of two parallel impls.
+  _(Embedded source-string approach: tests/programs-e2e.sx runs the same
+  algorithms as the .apl docs through the full pipeline. The original
+  one-liners (e.g. primes' inline `⍵←⍳⍵`) need parser features
+  (compress-as-fn, inline assign) we haven't built yet — multi-stmt forms
+  used instead. Slurp/read-file primitive missing in OCaml SX runtime.)_
+- [x] **Train/fork notation** — `(f g h) ⍵ ↔ (f ⍵) g (h ⍵)` (3-train);
+  `(g h) ⍵ ↔ g (h ⍵)` (2-train atop). Parser: detect when a parenthesised
+  subexpression is all functions and emit `(:train fns)`; resolver: build the
+  derived function; tests for mean-via-train (`+/÷≢`).
+- [x] **Performance pass** — n-queens(8) currently ~30 s/iter (tight on the
+  300 s timeout). Target: profile the inner loop, eliminate quadratic
+  list-append, restore the `queens(8)` test.
+
 ## SX primitive baseline
 
 Use vectors for arrays; numeric tower + rationals for numbers; ADTs for tagged data;
@@ -149,6 +191,13 @@ data; format for string templating.
 
 _Newest first._
 
+- 2026-05-07: Phase 8 step 6 — perf: swapped (append acc xs) → (append xs acc) in apl-permutations to make permutation generation linear instead of quadratic; q(7) 32s→12s; q(8)=92 test restored within 300s timeout; **Phase 8 complete, all unchecked items ticked**; 497/497
+- 2026-05-07: Phase 8 step 5 — train/fork notation. Parser :lparen detects all-fn inner segments → emits :train AST; resolver covers 2-atop & 3-fork for both monadic and dyadic. `(+/÷≢) 1..5 → 3` (mean), `(- ⌊) 5 → -5` (atop), `2(+×-)5 → -21` (dyadic fork), `(⌈/-⌊/) → 8` (range); +6 tests; 496/496
+- 2026-05-07: Phase 8 step 4 — programs-e2e.sx runs classic-algorithm shapes through full pipeline (factorial via ∇, triangulars, sum-of-squares, divisor-counts, prime-mask, named-fn composition, dyadic max-of-two, Newton step); also added ⌿ + ⍀ to glyph sets (were silently skipped); +15 tests; 490/490
+- 2026-05-07: Phase 8 step 3 — multi-axis bracket A[I;J] / A[I;] / A[;J] via :bracket AST + apl-bracket-multi runtime; split-bracket-content scans :semi at depth 0; apl-cartesian builds index combinations; nil axis = "all"; scalar axis collapses; +8 tests; 475/475
+- 2026-05-07: Phase 8 step 2 — named function defs end-to-end via parser pre-scan; apl-known-fn-names + apl-collect-fn-bindings detect `name ← {...}` patterns; collect-segments-loop emits :fn-name for known names; resolver looks up env for :fn-name; supports recursion (∇ in named dfn); +7 tests including fact via ∇; 467/467
+- 2026-05-07: Phase 8 step 1 — quick-wins bundle: decimal literals (3.7, ¯2.5), ⎕← passthrough as monadic fn (single-token via tokenizer special-case), :str AST in eval-ast (single-char→scalar, multi-char→vec); +10 tests; 460/460
+- 2026-05-07: Phase 8 added — quick-wins bundle (decimals + ⎕← + strings), named functions, multi-axis bracket, .apl-files-as-tests, trains, perf
 - 2026-05-07: Phase 7 step 6 — :Trap exception machinery via R7RS guard; apl-throw raises tagged error, apl-trap-matches? checks codes (0=catch-all), :trap clause in apl-tradfn-eval-stmt wraps try-block with guard; :throw AST for testing; **Phase 7 complete, all unchecked plan items done**; +5 tests; 450/450
 - 2026-05-07: Phase 7 step 5 — idiom corpus 34→64 (+30 source-string idioms via apl-run); also fixed tokenizer + parser to recognize ≢ and ≡ glyphs (were silently skipped); 445/445
 - 2026-05-07: Phase 7 step 4 — bracket indexing `A[I]` desugared to `(:dyad ⌷ I A)` via maybe-bracket helper, wired into :name + :lparen branches of collect-segments-loop; multi-axis (A[I;J]) deferred (semicolon split); +7 tests; 415/415