registry NAME of RECORD [as PREFIX] is a global table; def NAME key { ... } in
any file is one entry, collected in source order and filled before any code
runs. Each entry gets an index constant (PREFIX_KEY), the table PREFIX_COUNT,
and a record with a key field gets it filled and a NAME_find(key). A record
literal naming a field its record lacks is now an error everywhere; a global's
initializer is lowered as its own file's code (its errors, and what its module
may see, were whichever statement came last).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: feature
Registries by declaration. registry Furnishings of Furnishing as HF declares a table of
records, and each def Furnishings chair { name: "Camp chair", cost: 60 } - in any file - is an
entry of it, filled before any code runs. Every entry gets an index constant (HF_CHAIR, in
declaration order), the table a count (HF_COUNT), and a record with a key field gets it filled
in and a lookup, furnishings_find(key). A def's fields are checked; a record literal naming a field
its record does not have is now an error everywhere.