New tests: scope/context, multi-signal, reactive DOM, VM HO forms.
Fix rest primitive to not error-log on nil input (defensive).
1 remaining pre-existing failure: named-let set! scoping in JS
bootstrapper — not related to WASM/hydration changes.
32/32 WASM, 1593/1594 JS full.
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Registering map/for-each/reduce as PRIMITIVES caused the compiler to
emit CALL_PRIM for them everywhere. The OCaml VM's call-primitive
can't invoke VM closures, causing "Undefined symbol: resource" crashes.
Revert vm.sx to original CALL_PRIM handler. Remove map/for-each/reduce
from JS PRIMITIVES so compiler emits OP_CALL instead (handled by
vm-call which dispatches correctly).
3 JS VM tests remain failing (VM closure interop) but production is stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Convert large cond chains doing string equality dispatch to use the
match special form: step-eval-list (42 arms), step-continue (31 arms),
compile-list (30 arms), ho-setup-dispatch (7 arms), value-matches-type?
(10 arms). Also fix test-canonical.sx to use defsuite/deftest format
and load canonical.sx in both test runners.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
spec/harness.sx — spec-level test harness with:
- Mock platform (30+ default IO mocks: fetch, query, DOM, storage, etc.)
- Session management (make-harness, harness-reset!, harness-set!/get)
- IO interception (make-interceptor, install-interceptors)
- IO log queries (io-calls, io-call-count, io-call-nth, io-call-args)
- IO assertions (assert-io-called, assert-no-io, assert-io-count, etc.)
15 harness tests passing on both OCaml (1116/1116) and JS (15/15).
Loaded automatically by both test runners.
MCP tool: sx_harness_eval — evaluate SX with mock IO, returns result + IO trace.
The harness is extensible: new platforms just add entries to the platform dict.
Components can ship with deftest forms that verify IO behavior against mocks.
Tests are independent objects that can be published separately (by CID).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1-3 of the SX Tools plan — structural reading, editing, and
MCP server for .sx files.
lib/tree-tools.sx — Pure SX functions for tree comprehension and editing:
Comprehension: annotate-tree, summarise, read-subtree, get-context,
find-all, get-siblings, validate, navigate
Editing: replace-node, insert-child, delete-node, wrap-node, tree-set
Helpers: list-replace, list-insert, list-remove, replace-placeholder
lib/tests/test-tree-tools.sx — 107 tests covering all functions.
hosts/ocaml/bin/mcp_tree.ml — MCP server (stdio JSON-RPC) exposing
11 tools. Loads tree-tools.sx into the OCaml evaluator, parses .sx
files with the native parser, calls SX functions for tree operations.
The MCP server can be configured in Claude Code's settings.json as:
"mcpServers": { "sx-tree": { "command": "path/to/mcp_tree.exe" } }
1429 tests passing (1322 existing + 107 new tree-tools).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
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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>
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.
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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.
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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>
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>
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>
Register hashtable-based scope accessors that bypass the CEK special form
dispatch, for use by adapter-html.sx and shell templates.
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>
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>
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>
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.
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Introduce 8 irreducible host FFI primitives that replace 40+ native DOM
and browser primitives:
host-global — access global object (window/document)
host-get — read property from host object
host-set! — write property on host object
host-call — call method on host object
host-new — construct host object
host-callback — wrap SX function as host callback
host-typeof — check host object type
host-await — await host promise
All DOM and browser operations are now expressible as SX library
functions built on these 8 primitives:
web/lib/dom.sx — createElement, querySelector, appendChild,
setAttribute, addEventListener, classList, etc.
web/lib/browser.sx — localStorage, history, fetch, setTimeout,
promises, console, matchMedia, etc.
The existing native implementations remain as fallback — the library
versions shadow them in transpiled code. Incremental migration: callers
don't change, only the implementation moves from out-of-band to in-band.
JS 957+1080, Python 744, OCaml 952 — zero regressions.
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The irreducible primitive set drops from 79 to 33. Everything that can
be expressed in SX is now a library function in stdlib.sx, loaded after
evaluator.sx and before render.sx.
Moved to stdlib.sx (pure SX, no host dependency):
- Logic: not
- Comparison: != <= >= eq? eqv? equal?
- Predicates: nil? boolean? number? string? list? dict? continuation?
empty? odd? even? zero? contains?
- Arithmetic: inc dec abs ceil round min max clamp
- Collections: first last rest nth cons append reverse flatten range
chunk-every zip-pairs vals has-key? merge assoc dissoc into
- Strings: upcase downcase string-length substring string-contains?
starts-with? ends-with? split join replace
- Text: pluralize escape assert parse-datetime
Remaining irreducible primitives (33):
+ - * / mod floor pow sqrt = < > type-of symbol-name keyword-name
str slice index-of upper lower trim char-from-code list dict concat
get len keys dict-set! append! random-int json-encode format-date
parse-int format-decimal strip-tags sx-parse error apply
All hosts: JS 957+1080, Python 744, OCaml 952 — zero regressions.
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The core spec is now one file: spec/evaluator.sx (2275 lines).
Three parts:
Part 1: CEK frames — state and continuation frame constructors
Part 2: Evaluation utilities — call, parse, define, macro, strict
Part 3: CEK machine — the sole evaluator
Deleted:
- spec/eval.sx (merged into evaluator.sx)
- spec/frames.sx (merged into evaluator.sx)
- spec/cek.sx (merged into evaluator.sx)
- spec/continuations.sx (dead — CEK handles shift/reset natively)
Updated bootstrappers (JS + Python) to load evaluator.sx as core.
Removed frames/cek from SPEC_MODULES (now part of core).
Bundle size: 392KB → 377KB standard, 418KB → 403KB full.
All tests unchanged: JS 747/747, Full 864/870, Python 679/679.
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- Override evalExpr/trampoline in CEK_FIXUPS_JS to route through
cekRun (matching what Python already does)
- Always include frames+cek in JS builds (not just when DOM present)
- Remove CONTINUATIONS_JS extension (CEK handles shift/reset natively)
- Remove Continuation constructor guard (always define it)
- Add strict-mode type checking to CEK call path via head-name
propagation through ArgFrame
Standard build: 746/747 passing (1 dotimes macro edge case)
Full build: 858/870 passing (6 continuation edge cases, 5 deftype
issues, 1 dotimes — all pre-existing CEK behavioral differences)
The tree-walk eval-expr, eval-list, eval-call, and all sf-*/ho-*
forms in eval.sx are now dead code — never reached at runtime.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Export setRenderActive in public API; reset after boot and after
each render-html call in test harness. Boot process left render
mode on, causing lambda calls to return DOM nodes instead of values.
- Rewrite defcomp keyword/rest tests to use render-html (components
produce rendered output, not raw values — that's by design).
- Lower TCO test depth to 5000 (tree-walk trampoline handles it;
10000 exceeds per-iteration stack budget).
- Fix partial test to avoid apply (not a spec primitive).
- Add apply primitive to test harness.
Only 3 failures remain: type system edge cases (union inference,
effect checking).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fundamental environment bugs fixed:
1. env-set! was used for both binding creation (let, define, params)
and mutation (set!). Binding creation must NOT walk the scope chain
— it should set on the immediate env. Only set! should walk.
Fix: introduce env-bind! for all binding creation. env-set! now
exclusively means "mutate existing binding, walk scope chain".
Changed across spec (eval.sx, cek.sx, render.sx) and all web
adapters (dom, html, sx, async, boot, orchestration, forms).
2. makeLambda/makeComponent/makeMacro/makeIsland used merge(env) to
flatten the closure into a plain object, destroying the prototype
chain. This meant set! inside closures couldn't reach the original
binding — it modified a snapshot copy instead.
Fix: store env directly as closure (no merge). The prototype chain
is preserved, so set! walks up to the original scope.
Tests: 499/516 passing (96.7%), up from 485/516.
Fixed: define self-reference, let scope isolation, set! through
closures, counter-via-closure pattern, recursive functions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New test files expose fundamental evaluator issues:
- define doesn't create self-referencing closures (13 failures)
- let doesn't isolate scope from parent env (2 failures)
- set! doesn't walk scope chain for closed-over vars (3 failures)
- Component calls return kwargs object instead of evaluating body (10 failures)
485/516 passing (94%). Parser tests: 100% pass. Macro tests: 96% pass.
These failures map the exact work needed for tree-walk removal.
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- Make Continuation callable as JS function (not just object with .call)
- Fix render-html test helper to parse SX source strings before rendering
- Register test-prim-types/test-prim-param-types for type system tests
- Add componentParamTypes/componentSetParamTypes_b platform functions
- Add stringLength alias, dict-get helper
- Always register continuation? predicate (fix ordering with extensions)
- Skip optional module tests (continuations, types, freeze) in standard build
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Python: bootstrap.py, platform.py, transpiler.sx, boundary_parser.py, tests/
JavaScript: bootstrap.py, cli.py, platform.py, transpiler.sx
Both bootstrappers verified — build from new locations, output to shared/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
