Reword every 'foreign' comment to the extern/runtime-class vocabulary matching the
renamed identifiers (foreign call→extern call, foreign class→runtime class, foreign
path→runtime path, the #foreign-literal comment mentions → extern, etc.). Also fixes
two USER-FACING issues: the 'expected … #foreign … after type annotation' parse error
no longer advertises the removed keyword, and the Android 'no #jni_main' help
diagnostic now shows '#jni_class(…) extern' instead of the rejected '#foreign
#jni_class'. Removed the now-dead prefix-#foreign-vs-postfix conflict branch in
parseRuntimeClassDecl (the caller rejects #foreign before it runs).
src/ now contains 'foreign' ONLY in the hash_foreign token machinery + its 4
rejection messages — the deprecation mechanism (kept per the 9.0 recommendation; the
message MUST name #foreign to guide migration). Snapshot-neutral; suite green
(646 corpus / 444 unit, 0 failed).
Per user feedback: don't introduce new terminology. The RuntimeClassDecl
reference-vs-define flag (set by the postfix 'extern' modifier, == old prefix
'#foreign #objc_class') is named is_extern, matching the keyword that drives it
and the existing is_extern on VarDecl/IR. Renamed is_reference→is_extern,
is_reference_eff→is_extern_eff; updated the field comment. Snapshot-neutral; green.
The runtime-class object-model identifiers (Decision 5): parse/lower/find/resolve/
register/stamp fns Foreign→Runtime (parseRuntimeClassDecl, lowerRuntimeMethodCall,
findRuntimeMethodInChain, resolveRuntimeMethodReturnType, registerRuntimeClassDecl,
runtimeClassStructType, runtimeKindForOffset, …); state foreign_class_map→
runtime_class_map, current_foreign_class/_method→current_runtime_*, the
foreign_class_decl union variant→runtime_class_decl, foreign_method/static/instance/
class→runtime_*; and the reference-vs-define flag is_foreign→is_reference (+
is_foreign_eff→is_reference_eff) now that it only lives on RuntimeClassDecl.
Snapshot-neutral; suite green (646/444).
Remaining 9.2: the foreign_path family (coupled .sx hooks: jni_main_foreign_path_at
spans build.sx/bundle.sx/compiler_hooks.zig/specs.md) + the extern-ref validators
(checkForeignRefs etc. → Extern, linkage not runtime) + bare 'foreign' comments.
Surface rename of the signed integer family: s1..s64 become i1..i64
(u1..u64, usize, isize unchanged). 'string' keeps the s-prefix arm in
name classification; width parsing moves to the i-prefix arm next to
isize.
Internal TypeId tags follow the surface (.s8/.s16/.s32/.s64 ->
.i8/.i16/.i32/.i64), as do mono-key mangle fragments (ptr_i64,
tu_i64_bool) and all display/diagnostic formatting (i{d}).
Migrated in the same sweep: stdlib + examples + issue repros + FFI C
companions (shared symbol names like ffi_id_i64), expected
stdout/stderr/ir snapshots, specs.md, readme.md, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md,
implementation_plan.md, docs/, issue writeups. Vendored stb_image and
historical flow state left untouched.
zig build test: 426/426; examples suite: 595/595.
Review follow-up to the ARCH-B split (comment/import hygiene only, no
code changes):
- Section banners that travelled to the wrong file with the B1-B8 cuts
are reworded to describe the section that actually follows (e.g.
stmt.zig's trailing "Expression lowering", expr.zig's "Control flow"
before lowerChainedComparison) or deleted where nothing follows
(4 trailing-at-EOF banners). ffi.zig's facade note no longer claims
the IMP builders "stay here" (they live in lower/objc_class.zig);
protocol.zig's namespace-lookup banner now points at
pack.zig:resolvePackProjection for the orchestrator.
- lower.zig's two lower/expr.zig alias blocks (B8.1 + B8.2 appends)
merged into one.
- 448 unused header decls pruned from the 15 lower/*.zig files (each
had inherited lower.zig's full import block; pruned to fixpoint so
cascading type-extraction consts went too).
Gate: zig build OK; zig build test 426/426; run_examples 541/0; zero
expected/ snapshot churn.
Verbatim relocation of the 23-method defined-class cluster (IMP/property
emission: class/alloc/static/dealloc IMPs, property getters/setters +
ARC runtime decls, defined-state field access, property/method chain
lookup, string-constant globals) plus the single-home
ObjcDefinedStateField type into src/ir/lower/objc_class.zig. 23 aliases
on Lowering keep all call sites (incl. expr_typer.zig facade and
lower/stmt.zig) unchanged. Zero pub-flips — all callees were already
public from earlier steps.
Gate: zig build OK; zig build test 426/426; run_examples 541/0; all 37
.ir snapshots byte-identical, zero expected/ churn.
