Three issues in the stepper island's client-side rendering:
1. do-step used eval-expr with empty env for ~cssx/tw spreads — component
not found, result leaked as [object Object]. Fixed: call ~cssx/tw
directly (in scope from island env) with trampoline.
2. steps-to-preview excluded spreads — SSR preview had no styling.
Fixed: include spreads in the tree so both SSR and client render
with CSSX classes.
3. build-children used named let (let loop ...) which produces
unresolved Thunks in render mode due to the named-let compiler
desugaring interacting with the render/eval boundary. Fixed:
rewrote as plain recursive function bc-loop avoiding named let.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
spec/ now contains only the language definition (5 files):
evaluator.sx, parser.sx, primitives.sx, render.sx, special-forms.sx
lib/ contains code written IN the language (8 files):
stdlib.sx, types.sx, freeze.sx, content.sx,
bytecode.sx, compiler.sx, vm.sx, callcc.sx
Test files follow source: spec/tests/ for core language tests,
lib/tests/ for library tests (continuations, freeze, types, vm).
Updated all consumers:
- JS/Python/OCaml bootstrappers: added lib/ to source search paths
- OCaml bridge: spec_dir for parser/render, lib_dir for compiler/freeze
- JS test runner: scans spec/tests/ (always) + lib/tests/ (--full)
- OCaml test runner: scans spec/tests/, lib tests via explicit request
- Docker dev mounts: added ./lib:/app/lib:ro
Tests: 1041 JS standard, 1322 JS full, 1101 OCaml — all pass
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three bugs broke island SSR rendering of the home stepper widget:
1. Inline VM opcodes (OP_ADD..OP_DEC) broke JIT-compiled functions.
The compiler emitted single-byte opcodes for first/rest/len/= etc.
that produced wrong results in complex recursive code (sx-parse
returned nil, split-tag produced 1 step instead of 16). Reverted
compiler to use CALL_PRIM for all primitives. VM opcode handlers
kept for future use.
2. Named let (let loop ((x init)) body) had no compiler support —
silently produced broken bytecode. Added desugaring to letrec.
3. URL-encoded cookie values not decoded server-side. Client set-cookie
uses encodeURIComponent but Werkzeug doesn't decode cookie values.
Added unquote() in bridge cookie injection.
Also: call-lambda used eval_expr which copies Dict values (signals),
breaking mutations through aser lambda calls. Switched to cek_call.
Also: stepper preview now includes ~cssx/tw spreads for SSR styling.
Tests: 1317 JS, 1114 OCaml, 26 integration (2 pre-existing failures)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
16 new opcodes (160-175) bypass the CALL_PRIM hashtable lookup for
the most frequently called primitives:
Arithmetic: OP_ADD, OP_SUB, OP_MUL, OP_DIV, OP_INC, OP_DEC, OP_NEG
Comparison: OP_EQ, OP_LT, OP_GT, OP_NOT
Collection: OP_LEN, OP_FIRST, OP_REST, OP_NTH, OP_CONS
The compiler (compiler.sx) recognizes these names at compile time and
emits the inline opcode instead of CALL_PRIM. The opcode is self-
contained — no constant pool index, no argc byte. Each primitive is
a single byte in the bytecode stream.
Implementation in all three VMs:
- OCaml (sx_vm.ml): direct pattern match, no allocation
- SX spec (vm.sx): delegates to existing primitives
- JS (transpiled): same as SX spec
66 new tests in spec/tests/vm-inline.sx covering arithmetic, comparison,
collection ops, composition, and edge cases.
Tests: 1314 JS (full), 1114 OCaml, 32 Playwright
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
dom-on wraps Lambda event handlers in JS functions that call callLambda.
callLambda returns a Thunk (TCO), but the wrapper never trampolined it,
so the handler body (swap!, set!, etc.) never executed. Buttons rendered
but clicks had no effect.
Fix: wrap callLambda result in trampoline() so thunks resolve and
side effects (signal mutations, DOM updates) execute.
Also use call-lambda instead of direct invocation for Lambda objects
(Lambda is a plain JS object, not callable as a function).
All 100 Playwright tests pass:
- 6 isomorphic SSR
- 5 reactive navigation (cross-demo)
- 61 geography page loads
- 7 handler response rendering
- 21 demo interaction + health checks
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When handler bodies use (let ((rows (map ...))) (<> rows)), the let
binding evaluates the map via CEK, which converts :class keywords to
"class" strings. The aser fragment serializer then outputs "class" as
text content instead of :class as an HTML attribute.
Fix: add aser-reserialize function that detects string pairs in
evaluated element lists where the first string matches known HTML
attribute names (class, id, sx-*, data-*, style, href, src, type,
name, value, etc.) and restores them as :keyword syntax.
All 7 handler response tests now pass:
- bulk-update, delete-row, click-to-load, active-search
- form-submission, edit-row, tabs
Total Playwright: 79/79
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The transpiler treated any list with a non-symbol head as a data list,
emitting [head, args] as a JS array literal. When head is a sub-expression
(another call), it should emit (head)(args) — a function call.
This fixes the custom special forms dispatch in transpiled code:
Before: [get(_customSpecialForms, name), args, env] (array — broken)
After: (get(_customSpecialForms, name))(args, env) (call — correct)
Also fixes IIFE patterns: ((fn (x) body) arg) now emits
(function(x) { ... })(arg) instead of [function(x){...}, arg]
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When morphing DOM after server fetch, the morph engine reuses elements
with the same tag. If old element was island A and new is island B,
syncAttrs updates data-sx-island but the JS property _sxBoundisland-hydrated
persists on the reused element. sx-hydrate-islands then skips it.
Fix: in morphNode, when data-sx-island attribute changes between old and
new elements, dispose the old island's signals and clear the hydration
flag so the new island gets properly hydrated.
New Playwright tests:
- counter → temperature navigation: temperature signals work
- temperature → counter navigation: counter signals work
- Direct load verification for both islands
- No JS errors during navigation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Route all rendering through OCaml bridge — render_to_html no longer uses
Python async_eval. Fix register_components to parse &key params and &rest
children from defcomp forms. Remove all dead sx_ref.py imports.
Epoch protocol (prevents pipe desync):
- Every command prefixed with (epoch N), all responses tagged with epoch
- Both sides discard stale-epoch messages — desync structurally impossible
- OCaml main loop discards stale io-responses between commands
Consolidate scope primitives into sx_scope.ml:
- Single source of truth for scope-push!/pop!/peek, collect!/collected,
emit!/emitted, context, and 12 other scope operations
- Removes duplicate registrations from sx_server.ml (including bugs where
scope-emit! and clear-collected! were registered twice with different impls)
- Bind scope prims into env so JIT VM finds them via OP_GLOBAL_GET
JIT VM fixes:
- Trampoline thunks before passing args to CALL_PRIM
- as_list resolves thunks via _sx_trampoline_fn
- len handles all value types (Bool, Number, RawHTML, SxExpr, Spread, etc.)
Other fixes:
- ~cssx/tw signature: (tokens) → (&key tokens) to match callers
- Minimal Python evaluator in html.py for sync sx() Jinja function
- Python scope primitive stubs (thread-local) for non-OCaml paths
- Reader macro resolution via OcamlSync instead of sx_ref.py
Tests: 1114 OCaml, 1078 JS, 35 Python regression, 6/6 Playwright SSR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes the 5993-line bootstrapped Python evaluator (sx_ref.py) and all
code that depended on it exclusively. Both bootstrappers (JS + OCaml)
now use a new synchronous OCaml bridge (ocaml_sync.py) to run the
transpiler. JS build produces identical output; OCaml bootstrap produces
byte-identical sx_ref.ml.
Key changes:
- New shared/sx/ocaml_sync.py: sync subprocess bridge to sx_server.exe
- hosts/javascript/bootstrap.py: serialize defines → temp file → OCaml eval
- hosts/ocaml/bootstrap.py: same pattern for OCaml transpiler
- shared/sx/{html,async_eval,resolver,jinja_bridge,handlers,pages,deps,helpers}:
stub or remove sx_ref imports; runtime uses OCaml bridge (SX_USE_OCAML=1)
- sx/sxc/pages: parse defpage/defhandler from AST instead of Python eval
- hosts/ocaml/lib/sx_primitives.ml: append handles non-list 2nd arg per spec
- Deleted: sx_ref.py, async_eval_ref.py, 6 Python test runners, misc ref/ files
Test results: JS 1078/1078, OCaml 1114/1114.
sx_docs SSR has pre-existing rendering issues to investigate separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
run-tests.sh runs all suites: JS (standard + full), Python, OCaml,
Playwright (isomorphic + demos). deploy.sh calls it as gate.
Register log-info and log-warn as PRIMITIVES so runtime-eval'd SX code
(init-client.sx.txt) can use them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
These are domain definition forms (same pattern as defhandler, defpage,
etc.), not core language constructs. Moving them to web-forms.sx keeps
the core evaluator + types.sx cleaner for WASM compilation.
web-forms.sx now loaded in both JS and Python build pipelines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
dom.sx and browser.sx are library source (not transpiled into the bundle),
so their functions need explicit PRIMITIVES registration for runtime-eval'd
SX code (islands, data-init scripts). Restore registrations for all dom/
browser functions used at runtime. Revert bootstrap.py transpilation of
dom-lib/browser-lib which overrode native platform implementations that
have essential runtime integration (cekCall wrapping, post-render hooks).
Add Playwright regression test for [object Object] nav link issue.
Replace console-log calls with log-info in init-client.sx.txt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
dom-lib and browser-lib were listed in ADAPTER_FILES but never actually
transpiled — their functions only existed as native PLATFORM_*_JS code.
Add them to the build loop so the FFI library wrappers are compiled.
Add hostCall/hostGet/etc. variable aliases for transpiled code, and
console-log to browser.sx for runtime-eval'd SX code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The set!-based approach (nested when + mutate + re-check) didn't work
because CEK evaluates the outer when condition once. Replace with a
single (when (and should-fire (not modifier-click?)) ...) guard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the fragile pattern of capturing and wrapping definition-form?
with a mutable *definition-form-extensions* list in render.sx. Web
modules append names to this list instead of redefining the function.
Survives spec reloads without losing registrations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move defhandler/defquery/defaction/defpage/defrelation from hardcoded
evaluator dispatch to web/web-forms.sx extension module, registered via
register-special-form!. Adapters updated to use definition-form? and
dynamically extended form-name lists.
Fix modifier-key clicks (ctrl-click → new tab) in three click handlers:
bindBoostLink, bindClientRouteClick, and orchestration.sx bind-event.
Add event-modifier-key? primitive (eventModifierKey_p for transpiler).
Fix CSSX SSR: ~cssx/flush no longer drains the collected bucket on the
server, so the shell template correctly emits CSSX rules in <head>.
Add missing server-side DOM stubs (create-text-node, dom-append, etc.)
and SSR passthrough for portal/error-boundary/promise-delayed.
Passive event listeners for touch/wheel/scroll to fix touchpad scrolling.
97/97 Playwright demo tests + 4/4 isomorphic SSR tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
steps-to-preview is a pure recursive descent function inside the island's
letrec that builds an SX expression tree from steps[0..target-1].
The preview lake uses it to show partial text (e.g. "the joy of " at step 9).
Still WIP: stepper island doesn't SSR because DOM-only code (effect,
dom-query, dom-create-element) runs in the island body and fails on server.
Need to guard client-only code so SSR can render the pure parts
(code view, counter, preview).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
get-cookie / set-cookie primitives on both server and client:
- JS: reads/writes document.cookie
- OCaml: get-cookie reads from _request_cookies hashtable,
set-cookie is no-op (server sets cookies via HTTP headers)
- Python bridge: _inject_request_cookies_locked() sends
(set-request-cookies {:name "val"}) to kernel before page render
Stepper island (home-stepper.sx):
- Persistence switched from localStorage to cookie (sx-home-stepper)
- freeze-scope/thaw-from-sx mechanism preserved, just different storage
- Server reads cookie → thaw restores step-idx → SSR renders correct step
- Code highlighting: removed imperative code-spans/build-code-dom/
update-code-highlight; replaced with live DOM query that survives morphs
- Removed code-view lake wrapper (now plain reactive DOM)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The CSSX persistence after SPA navigation is a client-side issue.
The boot.sx flush added collected-rules-to-head after island hydration,
but this may interfere with the morph/reactive rendering pipeline.
The client-side CSSX persistence fix needs to work with the DOM adapter's
scope mechanism (CEK frames), not the hashtable-based scope-emit!/scope-emitted
used by the server adapter. WASM will unify these — same evaluator on both sides.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root causes of missing CSSX classes in SSR:
1. _sx_trampoline_fn in sx_primitives.ml was never wired — call_any in
HO forms (map/filter/for-each) returned unresolved Thunks, so callbacks
like render-lambda-html's param binding never executed. Fixed in
bootstrap.py FIXUPS: wire Sx_primitives._sx_trampoline_fn after eval_expr.
2. adapter-html.sx used (emit! ...) and (emitted ...) which are CEK special
forms (walk kont for ScopeAccFrame), but scope-push!/scope-pop! use the
hashtable. CEK frames and hashtable are two different scope systems.
Fixed: adapter uses scope-emit!/scope-emitted (hashtable primitives).
3. env-* operations (env-has?, env-get, env-bind!, env-set!, env-extend,
env-merge) only accepted Env type. adapter-html.sx passes Dict as env.
Fixed: all env ops go through unwrap_env which handles Dict/Nil.
Also: fix merge conflict in sx/sx/geography/index.sx, remove duplicate
scope primitives from sx_primitives.ml (sx_server.ml registers them).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JIT allowlist (sx_server.ml):
- Replace try-every-lambda strategy with StringSet allowlist. Only
functions in the list get JIT compiled (compiler, parser, pure transforms).
Render functions that need dynamic scope skip JIT entirely — no retry
overhead, no silent fallbacks.
- Add (jit-allow name) command for dynamic expansion from Python bridge.
- JIT failures log once with "[jit] DISABLED fn — reason" then go silent.
Standalone --test mode (sx_server.ml):
- New --test flag loads full env (spec + adapters + compiler + signals),
supports --eval and --load flags. Quick kernel testing without Docker.
Example: dune exec bin/sx_server.exe -- --test --eval '(len HTML_TAGS)'
Integration tests (integration_tests.ml):
- New binary exercising the full rendering pipeline: loads spec + adapters
into a server-like env, renders HTML via both native and SX adapter paths.
- 26 tests: HTML tags, special forms (when/if/let), letrec with side
effects, component rendering, eval-expr with HTML tag functions.
- Would have caught the "Undefined symbol: div/lake/init" issues from
the previous commit immediately without Docker.
VM cleanup (sx_vm.ml):
- Remove temporary debug logging (insn counter, call_closure counter,
VmClosure depth tracking) added during debugging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Core VM changes:
- Add VmClosure value variant — inner closures created by OP_CLOSURE are
first-class VM values, not NativeFn wrappers around call_closure
- Convert `run` from recursive to while-loop — zero OCaml stack growth,
true TCO for VmClosure tail calls
- vm_call handles VmClosure by pushing frame on current VM (no new VM
allocation per call)
- Forward ref _vm_call_closure_ref for cross-boundary calls (CEK/primitives)
Compiler (spec/compiler.sx):
- Define hoisting in compile-begin: pre-allocate local slots for all
define forms before compiling any values. Fixes forward references
between inner functions (e.g. read-expr referencing skip-ws in sx-parse)
- scope-define-local made idempotent (skip if slot already exists)
Server (sx_server.ml):
- JIT fail-once sentinel: mark l_compiled as failed after first VM runtime
error. Eliminates thousands of retry attempts per page render.
- HTML tag bindings: register all HTML tags as pass-through NativeFns so
eval-expr can handle (div ...) etc. in island component bodies.
- Log VM FAIL errors with function name before disabling JIT.
SSR fixes:
- adapter-html.sx letrec handler: evaluate bindings in proper letrec scope
(pre-bind nil, then evaluate), render body with render-to-html instead of
eval-expr. Fixes island SSR for components using letrec.
- Add `init` primitive to OCaml kernel (all-but-last of list).
- VmClosure handling in sx_runtime.ml sx_call dispatch.
Tests: 971/971 OCaml (+19 new), 0 failures.
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Root cause: sf-letrec returns a thunk (for TCO) but the CEK dispatch
wrapped it as a value without evaluating. The thunk leaked as the
return value of letrec expressions, breaking sx-parse and any function
using letrec.
Fix: step-sf-letrec unwraps the thunk into a CEK state, so the last
letrec body expression is properly evaluated by the CEK machine.
Also:
- compile-letrec: two-phase (nil-init then assign) for mutual recursion
- Skip JIT for inner functions (closure.bindings != globals) in both
vm_call and JIT hook
- vm-reset-fn for sx-parse removed (no longer needed)
- Parser regression test: letrec with mutable pos + recursive sublists
Test results: JS 943/17, OCaml 955/0, Python 747/0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The compiler was treating letrec as let — binding values sequentially.
This meant mutually recursive functions (like sx-parse's read-list
calling read-expr and vice versa) couldn't reference each other.
compile-letrec uses two phases:
1. Define all local slots initialized to nil
2. Compile and assign values — all names already in scope
This fixes sx-parse producing wrong ASTs (nested instead of sibling
lists) when JIT-compiled, which caused the stepper's step count to
be 2 instead of 16.
Also: skip JIT for lambdas with closure bindings (inner functions
like read-list-loop) — the closure merging into vm_env_ref produces
incorrect variable resolution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
~cssx/flush now appends rules to <style id="sx-css"> in <head>
instead of creating ephemeral inline <style> tags that get morphed
away during SPA navigation. Rules accumulate across navigations.
Future: reference-count rules and remove when no elements use them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ocaml branch introduced force-dispose-islands-in for outerHTML
swaps, which destroyed hydrated islands (including their live
signals). This broke the core hypermedia+reactive pattern: the
header island's colour state was lost on navigation, and lakes
weren't being morph-updated.
Reverted to production behaviour: dispose-islands-in skips hydrated
islands. The morph algorithm then preserves them (matching by
data-sx-island name) and only morphs their lake content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
sx-mount now checks if the target element has children (server-
rendered HTML). If so, skips the client re-render and only runs
hydration (process-elements, hydrate-islands, hydrate-elements).
This preserves server-rendered CSSX styling and avoids the flash
of unstyled content that occurred when the client replaced the
server HTML before re-rendering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
letrec in adapter-html.sx: evaluate via CEK (which handles mutual
recursion and returns a thunk), then render-value-to-html unwraps
the thunk and renders the expression with the letrec's local env.
Both islands (~layouts/header and ~home/stepper) now render
server-side with hydration markers and CSS classes.
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- trampoline resolves Thunk values (sf-letrec returns them for TCO)
- render-to-html handles "thunk" type by unwrapping expr+env
- effect overridden to no-op after loading signals.sx (prevents
reactive loops during SSR — effects are DOM side-effects)
- Added thunk?/thunk-expr/thunk-env primitives
- Added DOM API stubs for SSR (dom-query, schedule-idle, etc.)
Header island renders fully with styling. Stepper island still
fails SSR (letrec + complex body hits "Undefined symbol: div"
in eval path — render mode not active during CEK letrec eval).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Server now renders page content as HTML inside <div id="sx-root">,
visible immediately before JavaScript loads. The SX source is still
included in a <script data-mount="#sx-root"> tag for client hydration.
SSR pipeline: after aser produces the SX wire format, parse and
render-to-html it (~17ms for a 22KB page). Islands with reactive
state gracefully fall back to empty — client hydrates them.
Supporting changes:
- Load signals.sx into OCaml kernel (reactive primitives for island SSR)
- Add cek-call and context to kernel env (needed by signals/deref)
- Island-aware component accessors in sx_types.ml
- render-to-html handles Island values (renders as component with fallback)
- Fix 431 (Request Header Fields Too Large): replace SX-Components
header (full component name list) with SX-Components-Hash (12 chars)
- CORS allow SX-Components-Hash header
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- get primitive returns nil for type mismatches (list+string) instead
of raising — matches JS/Python behavior, fixes find-nav-match errors
- scope-peek, collect!, collected, clear-collected! registered as real
primitives in sx_primitives table (not just env bindings) so the CEK
step-sf-context can find them via get-primitive
- step-sf-context checks scope-peek hashtable BEFORE walking CEK
continuation — bridges aser's scope-push!/pop! with CEK's context
- context, emit!, emitted added to SPECIAL_FORM_NAMES and handled in
aser-special (scope operations in aser rendering mode)
- sx-context NativeFn for VM-compiled code paths
- VM execution errors no longer mark functions as permanently failed —
bytecode is correct, errors are from runtime data
- kbd, samp, var added to HTML_TAGS + sx-browser.js rebuilt
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace AOT adapter compilation with lazy JIT — each named lambda is
compiled to VM bytecode on first call, cached in l_compiled field for
subsequent calls. Compilation failures fall back to CEK gracefully.
VM types (vm_code, vm_upvalue_cell, vm_closure) moved to sx_types.ml
mutual recursion block. Lambda and Component records gain mutable
l_compiled/c_compiled cache fields. jit_compile_lambda in sx_vm.ml
wraps body as (fn (params) body), invokes spec/compiler.sx via CEK,
extracts inner closure from OP_CLOSURE constant.
JIT hooks in both paths:
- vm_call: Lambda calls from compiled VM code
- continue_with_call: Lambda calls from CEK step loop (injected by
bootstrap.py post-processing)
Pre-mark sentinel prevents re-entrancy (compile function itself was
hanging when JIT'd mid-compilation). VM execution errors caught and
fall back to CEK with sentinel marking.
Also: add kbd/samp/var to HTML_TAGS, rebuild sx-browser.js, add page
URL to sx-page-full-py timing log.
Performance: first page 28s (JIT compiles 17 functions), subsequent
pages 0.31s home / 0.71s wittgenstein (was 2.3s). All 1945 tests pass.
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Aser serialization: aser-call/fragment now return SxExpr instead of String.
serialize/inspect passes SxExpr through unquoted, preventing the double-
escaping (\" → \\\" ) that broke client-side parsing when aser wire format
was output via raw! into <script> tags. Added make-sx-expr + sx-expr-source
primitives to OCaml and JS hosts.
Binary blob protocol: eval, aser, aser-slot, and sx-page-full now send SX
source as length-prefixed blobs instead of escaped strings. Eliminates pipe
desync from concurrent requests and removes all string-escape round-trips
between Python and OCaml.
Bridge safety: re-entrancy guard (_in_io_handler) raises immediately if an
IO handler tries to call the bridge, preventing silent deadlocks.
Fetch error logging: orchestration.sx error callback now logs method + URL
via log-warn. Platform catches (fetchAndRestore, fetchPreload, bindBoostForm)
also log errors instead of silently swallowing them.
Transpiler fixes: makeEnv, scopePeek, scopeEmit, makeSxExpr added as
platform function definitions + transpiler mappings — were referenced in
transpiled code but never defined as JS functions.
Playwright test infrastructure:
- nav() captures JS errors and fails fast with the actual error message
- Checks for [object Object] rendering artifacts
- New tests: delete-row interaction, full page refresh, back button,
direct load with fresh context, code block content verification
- Default base URL changed to localhost:8013 (standalone dev server)
- docker-compose.dev-sx.yml: port 8013 exposed for local testing
- test-sx-build.sh: build + unit tests + Playwright smoke tests
Geography content: index page component written (sx/sx/geography/index.sx)
describing OCaml evaluator, wire formats, rendering pipeline, and topic
links. Wiring blocked by aser-expand-component children passing issue.
Tests: 1080/1080 JS, 952/952 OCaml, 66/66 Playwright
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three fixes completing the aser_slot migration:
1. Single-pass full-page rendering: eval_sx_url builds layout+content
AST and aser_slots it in ONE call — avoids double-aser where
re-parsed content hits "Undefined symbol: title/deref" errors.
2. Pipe desync fix: _inject_helpers_locked runs INSIDE the aser_slot
lock acquisition (not as a separate lock). Prevents interleaved
commands from other coroutines between injection and aser-slot.
3. _render_to_sx uses aser_slot (not aser): layout wrappers like
oob_page_sx contain re-parsed content from earlier aser_slot
calls. Regular aser fails on symbols that were bound during
the earlier expansion. aser_slot handles them correctly.
HTMX path: aser_slot the content, then oob_page_sx wraps it.
Full page path: build (~shared:layout/app-body :content wrapped_ast),
aser_slot in one pass, pass directly to sx_page.
New Playwright tests: test_navigate_geography_to_reactive,
test_direct_load_reactive_page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix: islands (defisland) pass component? check but must NEVER be
expanded server-side — they use browser-only reactive primitives
(signal, deref, computed). Added (not (island? comp)) guard in
adapter-sx.sx aser component dispatch.
New test file: shared/sx/tests/test_ocaml_helpers.py
- TestHelperInjection: 5 tests — helper IO proxy, 2-arg calls,
aser/aser_slot with helpers, undefined helper error
- TestHelperIOPerformance: 2 tests — 20 sequential IO round-trips
complete in <5s, aser_slot with 5 helpers in <3s
- TestAserSlotClientAffinity: 6 tests — island exclusion, client
affinity exclusion, server affinity expansion, auto affinity
behavior in aser vs aser_slot
eval_sx_url stays on bridge.aser() (server-affinity only) for now.
Switching to aser_slot requires fixing the double-aser issue in
_render_to_sx where content gets re-parsed and re-asered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three bugs in aser-expand-component (adapter-sx.sx):
- Keyword values were eval'd (eval-expr can't handle <>, HTML tags);
now asered, matching the aser's rendering capabilities
- Missing default nil binding for unset &key params (caused
"Undefined symbol" errors for optional params like header-rows)
- aserCall string-quoted keyword values that were already serialized
SX — now inlines values starting with "(" directly
Server-affinity annotations for layout/nav shells:
- ~shared:layout/app-body, ~shared:layout/oob-sx — page structure
- ~layouts/nav-sibling-row, ~layouts/nav-children — server-side data
- ~layouts/doc already had :affinity :server
- ~cssx/flush marked :affinity :client (browser-only state)
Navigation fix: restore oob_page_sx wrapper for HTMX responses
so #main-panel section exists for sx-select/sx-swap targeting.
OCaml bridge: lazy page helper injection into kernel via IO proxy
(define name (fn (...) (helper "name" ...))) — enables aser_slot
to evaluate highlight/component-source etc. via coroutine bridge.
Playwright tests: added pageerror listener to test_no_console_errors,
new test_navigate_from_home_to_geography for HTMX nav regression.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
adapter-sx.sx: aser-expand-component expands :affinity :server components
inline during SX wire format serialization. Binds keyword args via
eval-expr, children via aser (handles HTML tags), then asers the body.
ocaml_bridge.py: 10MB readline buffer for large spec responses.
nav-data.sx: evaluator.sx filename fix.
Page rendering stays on Python _eval_slot for now — full OCaml rendering
needs the page shell IO (headers, CSRF, CSS) migrated to OCaml IO bridge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ocaml_bridge: 10MB readline buffer for large spec explorer responses
- nav-data: evaluator.sx filename (was eval.sx, actual spec file is evaluator.sx)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major architectural change: page function dispatch and handler execution
now go through the OCaml kernel instead of the Python bootstrapped evaluator.
OCaml integration:
- Page dispatch: bridge.eval() evaluates SX URL expressions (geography, marshes, etc.)
- Handler aser: bridge.aser() serializes handler responses as SX wire format
- _ensure_components loads all .sx files into OCaml kernel (spec, web adapter, handlers)
- defhandler/defpage registered as no-op special forms so handler files load
- helper IO primitive dispatches to Python page helpers + IO handlers
- ok-raw response format for SX wire format (no double-escaping)
- Natural list serialization in eval (no (list ...) wrapper)
- Clean pipe: _read_until_ok always sends io-response on error
SX adapter (aser):
- scope-emit!/scope-peek aliases to avoid CEK special form conflict
- aser-fragment/aser-call: strings starting with "(" pass through unserialized
- Registered cond-scheme?, is-else-clause?, primitive?, get-primitive in kernel
- random-int, parse-int as kernel primitives; json-encode, into via IO bridge
Handler migration:
- All IO calls converted to (helper "name" args...) pattern
- request-arg, request-form, state-get, state-set!, now, component-source etc.
- Fixed bare (effect ...) in island bodies leaking disposer functions as text
- Fixed lower-case → lower, ~search-results → ~examples/search-results
Reactive islands:
- sx-hydrate-islands called after client-side navigation swap
- force-dispose-islands-in for outerHTML swaps (clears hydration markers)
- clear-processed! platform primitive for re-hydration
Content restructuring:
- Design, event bridge, named stores, phase 2 consolidated into reactive overview
- Marshes split into overview + 5 example sub-pages
- Nav links use sx-get/sx-target for client-side navigation
Playwright test suite (sx/tests/test_demos.py):
- 83 tests covering hypermedia demos, reactive islands, marshes, spec explorer
- Server-side rendering, handler interactions, island hydration, navigation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes the _renderCheck to check _renderMode (prevents SVG tag names
like 'g' from being treated as render expressions outside render context).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three changes that together enable the full 46-function stdlib migration:
1. CEK callable unification (spec/evaluator.sx):
cek-call now routes both native callables and SX lambdas through
continue-with-call, so replacing a native function with an SX lambda
doesn't change shift/reset behavior.
2. Named-let transpiler support (hosts/javascript/transpiler.sx):
(let loop ((i 0)) body...) now transpiles to a named IIFE:
(function loop(i) { body })(0)
This was the cause of the 3 test regressions (produced [object Object]).
3. Full stdlib via runtime eval (hosts/javascript/bootstrap.py):
stdlib.sx is eval'd at runtime (not transpiled) so its defines go
into PRIMITIVES without shadowing module-scope variables that the
transpiled evaluator uses directly.
stdlib.sx now contains all 46 library functions:
Logic: not
Comparison: != <= >= eq? eqv? equal?
Predicates: boolean? number? string? list? dict? continuation?
zero? odd? even? empty?
Arithmetic: inc dec abs ceil round min max clamp
Collections: first last rest nth cons append reverse flatten
range chunk-every zip-pairs
Dict: vals has-key? assoc dissoc into
Strings: upcase downcase string-length substring string-contains?
starts-with? ends-with? split join replace contains?
Text: pluralize escape parse-datetime assert
All hosts: JS 957+1080, Python 744, OCaml 952 — zero regressions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Evaluator: data-first higher-order forms — ho-swap-args auto-detects
(map coll fn) vs (map fn coll), both work. Threading + HO: (-> data
(map fn)) dispatches through CEK HO machinery via quoted-value splice.
17 new tests in test-cek-advanced.sx.
Fix plan pages: add mother-language, isolated-evaluator, rust-wasm-host
to page-functions.sx plan() — were in defpage but missing from URL router.
Aser error handling: pages.py now catches EvalError separately, renders
visible error banner instead of silently sending empty content. All
except blocks include traceback in logs.
Scope primitives: register collect!/collected/clear-collected!/emitted/
emit!/context in shared/sx/primitives.py so hand-written _aser can
resolve them (fixes ~cssx/flush expansion failure).
New test file: shared/sx/tests/test_aser_errors.py — 19 pytest tests
for error propagation through all aser control flow forms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New test files:
- test-cek-advanced.sx (63): deep nesting, complex calls, macro
interaction, environment stress, edge cases
- test-signals-advanced.sx (24): signal types, computed chains,
effects, batch, swap patterns
- test-integration.sx (38): parse-eval roundtrip, render pipeline,
macro-render, data-driven rendering, error recovery, complex patterns
Bugs found:
- -> (thread-first) doesn't work with HO special forms (map, filter)
because they're dispatched by name, not as env values. Documented
as known limitation — use nested calls instead of ->.
- batch returns nil, not thunk's return value
- upcase not a primitive (use upper)
Data-first HO forms attempted but reverted — the swap logic in
ho-setup-dispatch caused subtle paren/nesting issues. Needs more
careful implementation in a future session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
test-continuations-advanced.sx (41 tests):
multi-shot continuations, composition, provide/context basics,
provide across shift, scope/emit basics, scope across shift
test-render-advanced.sx (27 tests):
nested components, dynamic content, list patterns,
component patterns, special elements
Bugs found and documented:
- case in render context returns DOM object (CEK dispatches case
before HTML adapter sees it — use cond instead for render)
- context not visible in shift body (correct: shift body runs
outside the reset/provide boundary)
- Multiple shifts consume reset (correct: each shift needs its own
reset)
Python runner: skip test-continuations-advanced.sx without --full.
JS 815/815 standard, 938/938 full, Python 706/706.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The eval-expr forward declaration was an error-throwing stub that
the CEK fixup was supposed to override. If anything prevented the
fixup from running (or if eval-expr was captured by value before
the fixup), the stub would throw "CEK fixup not loaded".
Fix: define eval-expr and trampoline as real CEK wrappers at the
end of evaluator.sx (after cek-run is defined). The forward
declaration is now a harmless nil-returning stub. The fixup still
overrides with the iterative version, but even without it, eval
works correctly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
