# 0165 — parenthesized nested optional `?(?T)` resolves to a malformed double-wrapped type ## Symptom A nested optional written `?(?i64)` resolves to a spurious extra struct wrapper: the destination type lowers to `{ { {i64,i1} }, i1 }` (triple-wrapped) instead of the correct `{ {i64,i1}, i1 }`. Assigning an inner `?i64` then fails the LLVM verifier: ``` LLVM verification failed: Invalid InsertValueInst operands! %ow.val = insertvalue { { { i64, i1 } }, i1 } undef, { i64, i1 } %load, 0 ``` Crash (non-zero exit). `??i64` (unparenthesized) is a separate parse error (`expected type name`) and is NOT this bug — only the parenthesized `?(?T)` form reaches type resolution and produces the malformed layout. ## Reproduction ```sx #import "modules/std.sx"; main :: () { inner : ?i64 = 5; outer : ?(?i64) = inner; print("ok\n"); } ``` Expected: `ok` (a well-formed `{ {i64,i1}, i1 }` outer optional wrapping the inner `?i64`). Observed: LLVM verifier abort. ## Investigation prompt The type-table interning (`src/ir/types.zig` `optionalOf` / the optional lowering near `types.zig:87`) produces the CORRECT `{ {i64,i1}, i1 }` for a real `optional(optional(i64))`. So the malformed layout comes from `instruction.ty` itself: the parenthesized `(?i64)` inner type expression is resolved as a single-field STRUCT wrapping `?i64`, not as the optional type directly. Suspected area: resolution of a parenthesized type expression (`src/ir/type_resolver.zig` and/or the parser's handling of `(?T)` as a type) — a parenthesized type should resolve to the inner type unchanged, not introduce a tuple/struct wrapper. `src/backend/llvm/ops.zig` `emitOptionalWrap` is the faithful victim (it uses `toLLVMType(instruction.ty)`), not the cause. Verify: the repro prints `ok`; `?(?i64)` round-trips (unwrap inner, read value); confirm the IR type is `{ {i64,i1}, i1 }`. Add an `examples/optionals/09xx-nested-parenthesized-optional.sx` regression. (The `unresolved type` panic seen when an `!` unwrap is added is downstream recovery fallout of the same root cause — should disappear once the layout is correct.)