The entire parallel CSS system (StyleValue type, style dictionary,
keyword atom resolver, content-addressed class generation, runtime
CSS injection, localStorage caching) was built but never adopted —
the codebase already uses :class strings with defcomp components
for all styling. Remove ~3,000 lines of unused infrastructure.
Deleted:
- cssx.sx spec module (317 lines)
- style_dict.py (782 lines) and style_resolver.py (254 lines)
- StyleValue type, defkeyframes special form, build-keyframes platform fn
- Style dict JSON delivery (<script type="text/sx-styles">), cookies, localStorage
- css/merge-styles primitives, inject-style-value, fnv1a-hash platform interface
Simplified:
- defstyle now binds any value (string, function) — no StyleValue type needed
- render-attrs no longer special-cases :style StyleValue → class conversion
- Boot sequence skips style dict init step
Preserved:
- tw.css parsing + CSS class delivery (SX-Css headers, <style id="sx-css">)
- All component infrastructure (defcomp, caching, bundling, deps)
- defstyle as a binding form for reusable class strings
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The test framework is written in SX and tests SX — the language proves
its own correctness. test.sx defines assertion helpers (assert-equal,
assert-true, assert-type, etc.) and 15 test suites covering literals,
arithmetic, comparison, strings, lists, dicts, predicates, special forms,
lambdas, higher-order forms, components, macros, threading, truthiness,
and edge cases.
Two bootstrap compilers emit native tests from the same spec:
- bootstrap_test.py → pytest (81/81 pass)
- bootstrap_test_js.py → Node.js TAP using sx-browser.js (81/81 pass)
Also adds missing primitives to spec and Python evaluator: boolean?,
string-length, substring, string-contains?, upcase, downcase, reverse,
flatten, has-key?. Fixes number? to exclude booleans, append to
concatenate lists.
Includes testing docs page in SX app at /specs/testing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously these mutating operations were internal helpers in the JS
bootstrapper but not declared in primitives.sx or registered in the
Python evaluator. Now properly specced and available in both hosts.
Removes mock injections from cache tests — they use real primitives.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(index-of s needle from?) returns first index of needle in s, or -1.
Optional start offset. Specced in primitives.sx, implemented in both
hand-written primitives.py and bootstrapper templates, rebootstrapped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Spec (eval.sx, primitives.sx):
- Named let: (let loop ((i 0)) body) — self-recursive lambda with TCO
- letrec: mutually recursive local bindings with closure patching
- dynamic-wind: entry/exit guards with wind stack for future continuations
- eq?/eqv?/equal?: identity, atom-value, and deep structural equality
Implementation (evaluator.py, async_eval.py, primitives.py):
- Both sync and async evaluators implement all four forms
- 33 new tests covering all forms including TCO at 10k depth
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bootstrap shift/reset to both Python and JS targets. The implementation
uses exception-based capture with re-evaluation: reset wraps in try/catch
for ShiftSignal, shift raises to the nearest reset, and continuation
invocation pushes a resume value and re-evaluates the body.
- Add Continuation type and _ShiftSignal to shared/sx/types.py
- Add sf_reset/sf_shift to hand-written evaluator.py
- Add async versions to async_eval.py
- Add shift/reset dispatch to eval.sx spec
- Bootstrap to Python: FIXUPS_PY with sf_reset/sf_shift, regenerate sx_ref.py
- Bootstrap to JS: Continuation/ShiftSignal types, sfReset/sfShift in fixups
- Add continuation? primitive to both bootstrappers and primitives.sx
- Allow callables (including Continuation) in hand-written HO map
- 44 unit tests (22 per evaluator) covering: passthrough, abort, invoke,
double invoke, predicate, stored continuation, nested reset, practical patterns
- Update continuations essay to reflect implemented status with examples
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add boundary.sx declaring all 34 I/O primitives, 32 page helpers, and 9
allowed boundary types. Runtime validation in boundary.py checks every
registration against the spec — undeclared primitives/helpers crash at
startup with SX_BOUNDARY_STRICT=1 (now set in both dev and prod).
Key changes:
- Move 5 I/O-in-disguise primitives (app-url, asset-url, config,
jinja-global, relations-from) from primitives.py to primitives_io.py
- Remove duplicate url-for/route-prefix from primitives.py (already in IO)
- Fix parse-datetime to return ISO string instead of raw datetime
- Add datetime→isoformat conversion in _convert_result at the edge
- Wrap page helper return values with boundary type validation
- Replace all SxExpr(f"...") patterns with sx_call() or _sx_fragment()
- Add assert declaration to primitives.sx
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Meta-circular evaluator: the SX language specifying its own semantics.
A thin bootstrap compiler per target (JS, Python, Rust) reads these
.sx files and emits a native evaluator.
Files:
- eval.sx: Core evaluator — type dispatch, special forms, TCO trampoline,
lambda/component/macro invocation, higher-order forms
- primitives.sx: Declarative specification of ~80 built-in pure functions
- render.sx: Three rendering modes (DOM, HTML string, SX wire format)
- parser.sx: Tokenizer, parser, and serializer specification
Platform-specific concerns (DOM ops, async I/O, HTML emission) are
declared as interfaces that each target implements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
