The canonical Datalog idiom for "no X has any Y":
orphan(X) :- person(X), not(parent(X, _)).
was rejected by the safety check with "negation refers to unbound
variable(s) (\"_anon1\")". The parser renames each anonymous `_`
to a fresh `_anon*` symbol so multiple `_` occurrences don't unify
with each other, and the negation safety walk then demanded all
free vars in the negated lit be bound by an earlier positive body
lit — including the renamed anonymous vars.
Anonymous vars in a negation are existentially quantified within
the negation, not requirements from outside. Added dl-non-anon-vars
to strip `_anon*` names from the `needed` set before the binding
check in dl-process-neg!. Real vars (like `X` in the orphan idiom)
still must be bound by an earlier positive body lit, just as before.
2 new regression tests (orphan idiom + multi-anon "solo" pattern);
conformance 273/273.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New lib/datalog/strata.sx: dl-build-dep-graph (relation -> deps with
:neg flag), Floyd-Warshall reachability, SCC-via-mutual-reach for
non-stratifiability detection, iterative dl-compute-strata, and
dl-group-rules-by-stratum.
eval.sx refactor:
- dl-saturate-rules! db rules — semi-naive worker over a rule subset
- dl-saturate! db — stratified driver. Rejects non-stratifiable
programs at saturation time, then iterates strata in order
- dl-match-negation — succeeds iff inner positive match is empty
Order-aware safety in dl-rule-check-safety (Phase 4) already
required negation vars to be bound by a prior positive literal.
Stratum dict keys are strings (SX dicts don't accept ints).
Phase 6 magic sets deferred — opt-in path, semi-naive default
suffices for current workloads.
