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sx/examples/1011-errors-value-failable.sx
agra 296c809d85 ERR/E1.8: path-sensitive value-slot liveness check
A `v, err := failable()` destructure now binds the value slot(s) "live
only where `err` is proven absent". Reading `v` where the compiler cannot
prove `err == null` is a compile error.

New diagnostic-only Pass 1e (`checkErrorFlow` in ir/lower.zig): a
structured, path-sensitive walk over each main-file function body. A
proven-null set is threaded across branches and joined by intersection
at each `if`'s merge. Proof shapes recognized:

  - `if !err { … v … }`           (proven inside the guard)
  - `if err { return/raise } … v` (proven on the fall-through)
  - `if err { … } else { … v … }` (proven in the else branch)
  - `!err and <reads v>`          (short-circuit refinement)

Error-set tag compares (`if err == error.X`) prove nothing about
absence — they narrow the tag only. Nested lambdas are analyzed as their
own boundaries. Library modules are trusted (skipped).

Migrated the canon value-failable examples (1011/1012/1018/1044) to read
their value slots under `if !err` guards — output unchanged. New
regressions: 1046 (every proof shape compiles + runs, exit 210) and 1047
(unproven reads rejected, exit 1).

Gates: zig build, zig build test, run_examples.sh -> 338 passed, 0 failed.
2026-06-01 23:14:24 +03:00

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// Value-carrying failable functions (ERR step E2.1a — the producer side of the
// error-channel tuple ABI). A `-> (T, !E)` function returns EITHER a value OR
// an error: `return v;` yields the success tuple `{v, 0}` (the compiler appends
// the no-error slot), and `raise error.X` yields `{undef, tag}` (value slot
// undefined, error slot = the tag). Today the result is consumed by
// destructuring `v, err := f()` (which extracts both slots); the value-carrying
// `try` / `catch` consumers land in E2.1b.
#import "modules/std.sx";
E :: error { Bad, Empty }
parse :: (n: s32) -> (s32, !E) {
if n < 0 { raise error.Bad; }
if n == 0 { raise error.Empty; }
return n * 10; // success → {n*10, 0}
}
main :: () -> s32 {
r : s32 = 0;
// The value slot is live only where the error is proven absent (ERR E1.8):
// read `v1` under an `if !e1` guard, not after a bare tag-compare.
v1, e1 := parse(5); // success → v1 = 50, e1 = no error
if !e1 { r = r + v1; } // success → +50
v2, e2 := parse(-1); // Bad
if e2 == error.Bad { r = r + 7; } // true → +7
if e2 == error.Empty { r = r + 200; } // false
v3, e3 := parse(0); // Empty
if e3 == error.Empty { r = r + 3; } // true → +3
print("value-failable result: {}\n", r); // 50 + 7 + 3 = 60
return r;
}