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mk: phase 4A — appendo canary green, both directions
Three coupled fixes plus a new relations module land together because
each is required for the next: appendo can't terminate without all
three.

1. unify.sx — added (:cons h t) tagged cons-cell shape because SX has no
   improper pairs. The unifier treats (:cons h t) and the native list
   (h . t) as equivalent. mk-walk* re-flattens cons cells back to flat
   lists for clean reification.

2. stream.sx — switched mature stream cells from plain SX lists to a
   (:s head tail) tagged shape so a mature head can have a thunk tail.
   With the old representation, mk-mplus had to (cons head thunk) which
   SX rejects (cons requires a list cdr).

3. conde.sx — wraps each clause in Zzz (inverse-eta delay) for laziness.
   Zzz uses (gensym "zzz-s-") for the substitution parameter so it does
   not capture user goals that follow the (l s ls) convention. Without
   gensym, every relation that uses `s` as a list parameter silently
   binds it to the substitution dict.

relations.sx is the new module: nullo, pairo, caro, cdro, conso,
firsto, resto, listo, appendo, membero. 25 new tests.

Canary green:
  (run* q (appendo (list 1 2) (list 3 4) q))
    → ((1 2 3 4))
  (run* q (fresh (l s) (appendo l s (list 1 2 3)) (== q (list l s))))
    → ((() (1 2 3)) ((1) (2 3)) ((1 2) (3)) ((1 2 3) ()))
  (run 3 q (listo q))
    → (() (_.0) (_.0 _.1))

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;; lib/minikanren/conde.sx — Phase 2 piece C: `conde`, the canonical
;; miniKanren and-or form, with implicit Zzz inverse-eta delay so recursive
;; relations like appendo terminate.
;;
;; (conde (g1a g1b ...) (g2a g2b ...) ...)
;; ≡ (mk-disj (Zzz (mk-conj g1a g1b ...))
;; (Zzz (mk-conj g2a g2b ...)) ...)
;;
;; `Zzz g` wraps a goal expression in (fn (S) (fn () (g S))) so that
;; `g`'s body isn't constructed until the surrounding fn is applied to a
;; substitution AND the returned thunk is forced. This is what gives
;; miniKanren its laziness — recursive goal definitions can be `(conde
;; ... (... (recur ...)))` without infinite descent at construction time.
;;
;; Hygiene: the substitution parameter is gensym'd so that user goal
;; expressions which themselves bind `s` (e.g. `(appendo l s ls)`) keep
;; their lexical `s` and don't accidentally reference the wrapper's
;; substitution. Without gensym, miniKanren relations that follow the
;; common (l s ls) parameter convention are silently miscompiled.
(defmacro
Zzz
(g)
(let
((s-sym (gensym "zzz-s-")))
(quasiquote
(fn ((unquote s-sym)) (fn () ((unquote g) (unquote s-sym)))))))
(defmacro
conde
(&rest clauses)
(quasiquote
(mk-disj
(splice-unquote
(map
(fn
(clause)
(quasiquote (Zzz (mk-conj (splice-unquote clause)))))
clauses)))))