The ww compiler frontend was split across packages lex (lex+tok), ww
(ast+sym+typ), and parse — mirroring Hare's ref/hare/hare/{ast,lex,parse}.
That split's only payoff is third-party reuse, which ww has zero of: the
frontend is consumed by exactly one client, the wcc backend. The split's
cost is a wide cross-package export surface — every fn over a sibling
package's type must export it, and under separate compilation that
re-triggers check_exported_type, plus a phantom `import tok;` (tok lives
in package lex). Consolidate into ONE package lib/ww/syntax/, modelled on
Go's cmd/compile/internal/syntax. The 9 files move in (package syntax);
the intra-frontend mutual references become same-package; wcc and the
tool mains import syntax. No cstage C change (the C frontend mangles from
the source package clause). Internal data shapes (AST kinds, token model,
lexer/parser state) still mirror ref/hare/hare per rule 6/12 — only the
module decomposition collapses; the stdlib is untouched.
USER-approved (#74); spec .ai/rob-frontend-reorg.md (drew2 fidelity-
confirmed). Rule-6 carve-out documented in CLAUDE.md. Dissolves the tok
phantom import; collapses the intra-frontend export sprawl. Byte-id
rebaseline (lex.X/parse.X/ww.X -> syntax.X); cs==ww held. The residual
syntax->wcc export surface (10 types) + the unqualified-ref question are
separate follow-ups (#72/#75).
'ww test' gains the istest build path (-T injection in build_one/
buildone) and do_test/dotest accept -I, mirroring do_run - both twins.
The 35 converted lib tests drop their interim bare mains (-T
synthesizes the entry from @test fns and rejects a user main); their
35 C run-drivers flip 'ww run' -> 'ww test'; 989_lib_byteid compiles
lib tests under -T (8 user-main probe fixtures stay non-T, gated on
the fixture field). Abort-on-first-failure stands until the deferred
record-and-continue harness lands with the multi-package arc.
Fold the 69-arm `if (k == nkind.N_X) return "..."` ladder in nkname to a
single `switch (k)` with the terminal `return "?"` as the fall-past
default. The other ast.ww ladders stay: pr()'s kind dispatch is
side-effecting (emits output, recurses) and uses ||-grouped multi-kind
predicates, not a pure value->value mapping a switch can express.
Not byte-id-neutral (if-chain -> switch dispatch changes the asm), so
the ladder->switch equivalence is pinned by a new table-driven test:
lib/ww/asttest.ww drives nkname over every nkind plus the out-of-band
"?" fallback, wired as 905_nkname_run (same `ww run` @test shape as
904_tok_run). The 990_selfhost wwdump diff only covers kinds that
appear in its corpus.
Regenerates the w6c + wwdump combined.ww amalgamations (nkname region
only).
