Param-decl `name: T...` (Tparam.variadic=1, type []T), call-site
gather of N args into a fresh `[N]T`, forward via `xs...`, full
selfhost mirror, and lib/fmt graduated to the Hare shape.
Frontend:
- parse: `T...` after a param's type stamps Node.op=TK_ELLIPSIS
and breaks out (variadic must be last).
- check: resolve_type N_TFN / build_fn_type wrap the param type
as []T and set tp->variadic. N_CALL accepts either a tail of
args assignable to T (gather) or a single `xs...` spread of
[]T (forward); both bypass the "too many args" check on the
variadic slot.
- type: type_eq compares Tparam.variadic.
Cgen (cstage):
- call site: when the callee has a variadic last param,
materialise the tail args into a frame-resident `[N]T` via
localoff, write a 24B slice descriptor (ptr,len,cap), and
splice a synthesised N_IDENT into args[] so the downstream
widen/eval/pop loops see one slice slot. Tagged-element types
route each store through cg_widen_tagged_store. Forwarding
skips gather: the N_SPREAD wrapper is replaced with its inner
slice expression. Empty form writes {nil,0,0}. args[] / widen[]
bump from 16 to 64 to accommodate Hare's mixed-arg printers.
Selfhost mirror:
- lib/ww/parse: `T...` mark on N_PARAM.op.
- cgen: varargseq counter on Cg; scanlocals reserves
@vararg_d_N + @vararg_sl_N per variadic call (seq recorded on
N_CALL.uval so cgcall picks the same names). cgcall does the
same gather/forward and N_IDENT splice. cgfnparams treats
variadic params as 24B slice slots via a synthesised TSLICE
tnode. pushargsrev skips the tagged-widen detection for
variadic params (effective type is []T, not tagged).
- rhstargetname now recognises N_TRUE/N_FALSE/N_RUNELIT and
typed N_INTLIT so the variant-tag lookup finds bool/rune/iN
variants instead of falling through to "first non-str" (which
misassigned tag 0 to bool in tagged unions like formattable).
lib/fmt graduated: print/println/fprint/fprintln/errorln/fatal
take `args: formattable...`. Bare `error` (no -ln) is skipped —
the leaf name collides with strconv's `type error = !(invalid |
overflow)` under the driver's flat namespace.
Tests: 5 new e2e rows (plain gather, zero-arg, tagged element,
forwarding, fmt.println end-to-end). lib/CLAUDE.md workaround
paragraph replaced with the Hare-shape description.
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lib/ — Hare-shaped standard library.
Scope: every lib/* directory except lib/ww/, which is the compiler
frontend port and has its own rules (see lib/ww/CLAUDE.md).
Names mirror Hare. Before adding a function, find its counterpart in
ref/hare/<module>/ and copy the name — drop Hare's underscores per
plan 9 style (trim_prefix → trimprefix, next_token → nexttoken).
Don't invent. Don't shorten further. Don't reorder parameters.
Signatures mirror Hare too, modulo:
-
Tagged-union returns are spelled with the ww
!error tag where Hare uses!void/!T, and indices use the underlying length type (i32today, sincestr.len: i32). Example:strconv.stoi64(s: str, b: strconv.base) (i64 | invalid | overflow)— same shape as Hare's. The base parameter is the named enumstrconv.base(Hare usesenum uint; we pickenum i32to match the index type). -
Static-buffer
strreturns where Hare uses them.strconv.*tosreturns aconst strview into a module-level buffer that is overwritten on the next call to the same function. Callers that need the bytes to outlive the next call duplicate via strings.dup. Functions that genuinely allocate a fresh buffer (strings.dup,strings.concat) still return an ownedstrthat callers free viaos.free(r.ptr, r.len: u64). -
Call-site variadic sugar matches Hare.
fn f(args: T...)declares a Hare-style variadic; call sites either gather N args into a fresh[]T(fmt.println(42, "hi", true)) or forward an existing slice withxs...(fprintln(fd, args...)). The bareT...form in tagged unions still means spread-flatten ((...inner | E)); the two uses don't overlap becauseT...only attaches to a param decl.lib/fmtis intentionally print-string-only — noprintf-family. -
(T | U)sum-typed parameters dispatch viamatchinside the callee.strings.byteindex(haystack: str, needle: (str | rune)),bytes.index(s: []u8, needle: (u8 | []u8)), andrbyteindex/rindexfollow Hare's shape directly. The rune-indexedstrings.index(rune-wise position) isn't shipped yet — we don't have UTF-8 rune iteration in the language stack.
Don't ship a richer surface than Hare has. A documented subset is fine; an extension, rename, or convenience-wrapper is not — callers should not bake the current subset shape into themselves.
Modules with intentional divergence:
lib/osandlib/netstay below the Hare abstraction — they are syscall wrappers, not the high-levelio::handle/net::socketAPI. Use them as the foundation thatlib/ioand the buffered layers build on.lib/iokeeps the ww-specificstreamstruct (vtable of fn pointers, no closures, no methods). The Hareio::handlefamily needs language features we don't have yet.lib/bufioandlib/sortwill be redesigned to Hare'sscanner/cmpfuncshapes; the present minimal forms are placeholders until then.lib/timeandlib/mathship only what callers need today; they're not aiming for parity yet.
When the compiler can express a Hare signature that's still in the
ww-specific shape (e.g., once a module-level *u8 is mutable, the
strconv *tos family graduates to static-buffer returns), graduate
the module in one go — replace the current shape with the Hare shape
and fix the callers. Don't keep both around.