lang F1 2.7: pack-as-value diagnostics (Phase 2 complete)

Using a bare pack name where a runtime value is required was silent garbage
(f(xs)/return xs produced a stray pointer). Now a clear, context-tailored
compile error: isPackName + diagPackAsValue, caught at lowerVarDecl (storage),
lowerReturn (return), lowerFor (iterate), and an identifier-arm catch-all for
call/other. Storage binds a placeholder so there is no cascade error.

Suggestions point at WORKING fixes -- materialize (..xs), or declare the slice
form ..xs: []P for runtime use. The plan category-B "spread ..xs" is broken
(spreading a comptime pack into a []Any param crashes the LLVM verifier; filed
issue 0053), so the diagnostics steer to the slice-of-protocol variadic instead.

Repurposed examples/162-pack-bare-args.sx (was an aspirational bare-$args->[]Any
auto-materialise, contradicting Decision 1) into the slice-form forward
(..args: []Any). examples/203 is the four-category negative test. specs.md "Pack
as value" updated. 238 examples + unit green.
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// Variadic heterogeneous type packs — follow-up #3 (bare `args`
// reference). The pack-mono doesn't materialise a slice value
// for the pack name itself, so any body that references `args`
// without indexing (e.g. forwarding to a `[]Any`-typed helper,
// or just computing `args.len` through a non-comptime path)
// fails with "unresolved 'args'".
// Step 2.7 — forwarding a variadic to a `[]Any` helper.
//
// Next commit materialises an `[]Any` slice on demand inside
// the mono: each pack param is boxed into Any, stored in a
// stack [N x Any] array, and the slice {data_ptr, len} is bound
// to the pack name. `args` then resolves as a runtime value
// like the pre-2b inline path did.
// A comptime pack `..$args` is comptime-only (Decision 1): `args` bare is NOT a
// runtime value, so `log_count(args)` on a pack is an error (see the
// pack-as-value tests). To forward a variadic to a runtime `[]Any` helper,
// declare it as the *slice* variadic `..args: []Any` — then `args` is a real
// `[]Any` slice that passes straight through.
#import "modules/std.sx";
// Helper that takes a slice. Today the pack body can't pass
// `args` here because `args` isn't in scope as a value.
log_count :: (items: []Any) -> s64 {
return items.len;
}
forward :: (..$args) -> s64 {
// Slice variadic: `args` is a runtime []Any, forwarded directly.
forward :: (..args: []Any) -> s64 {
return log_count(args);
}

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// Step 2.7 — pack-as-value diagnostics. A pack is comptime-only (Decision 1),
// so using the bare pack name where a runtime value is required is an error,
// with a context-tailored suggestion. All four categories below fire (the
// functions are monomorphized when called from main).
#import "modules/std.sx";
Show :: protocol { show :: () -> string; }
A :: struct {}
impl Show for A { show :: (self: *A) -> string => "A"; }
sink :: (v: s64) -> void { _ = v; }
storage :: (..xs: Show) -> void { y := xs; _ = y; } // A: store
call :: (..xs: Show) -> void { sink(xs); } // B: pass to a call
ret :: (..xs: Show) -> s64 { return xs; } // C: return
iter :: (..xs: Show) -> void { for xs : (x) { _ = x; } } // D: runtime iterate
main :: () -> s32 {
storage(A.{});
call(A.{});
_ = ret(A.{});
iter(A.{});
0;
}