ludic/docs/language/structure/kw-reducer.md
Orkuncakilkaya ab0b84b87e feat(lang): 27.3 - a reducer on a table's row: reducer T in S.table on A, @Target, Row<T>, @RowVerb, @Column
An action names one row of a ludic.base Table<T> by its handle, in a field marked @Target, and
`reducer Deer in Herd.deer on Spook(r: mut Row<Deer>, n: Noise, a: Spook)` runs once, for that row
alone (the table may sit down a path, S.w.tab). The drain resolves the handle (tb_row) and hands the
reducer a Row<T> - new in ludic.base: tb, row, h, rec - that the queue keeps, one per row reducer,
filled in place, so a targeted action allocates nothing; a stale handle runs nothing, and
LUDIC_ACTIONS_LOG=1 prints a line for it (@alloc_ok). Row reducers order among an action's by their
state's name, then the table's path.

Checked at compile time (actions_rows.ludic): the row reaches r.rec and r.h only - r.tb / r.row
refused, the view never assigned, stored, copied or handed on except to a @RowVerb (a function of
the record's own module taking Row<T> first; any other function taking a row is refused); a field
marked @Column (a table column mirrors it) is not written through r.rec; only the module owning the
state declares a row reducer; one @Target, an int, per action; the states between the row and the
action are read. `mut` is allowed on a Row<T> parameter.

ludic schema's code section gains row_reducers (record, table, state, action, target, predicted,
net, module, at) and row_verbs (name, record, module, at), and every action its target; row
reducers are left out of `reducers`. ludic deps and ludic-lsp name a row reducer
`reducer Deer in Herd.deer on Spook`. vocab: @Target, @Column, @RowVerb; docs/language pages;
LANGUAGE.md "A reducer on a row"; examples actions/rows and ten rejects; test.ludic feat, reject and
schema cases (not run); changes/row-reducers.md. Reseeded; bootstrap-cfree fixpoint holds (307497
lines); Maroon Lake's `ludic build --check` is clean against this tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 16:14:59 +03:00

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id: kw-reducer name: reducer category: structure kind: keyword tokens: reducer sig: reducer State on Action(st: mut State, reads..., a: Action) { ... } / reducer Record in State.table on Action(r: mut Row, reads..., a: Action) { ... } tip: Applies an action to one state, or to the one table row its @Target names; it may read others. order: 62

A reducer writes exactly one state when its action is dispatched: the first parameter is that state, mut, the last is the action, and any states between are read-only. A change that must touch several states in a set order is a chain: a reducer dispatches the next action.

state Pos { x: int = 0 }
action Move { dx: int = 0 }
reducer Pos on Move(p: mut Pos, a: Move) {
  p.x = p.x + a.dx
}

Written in State.table, a reducer runs for the one row of that Table<Record> the action's @Target field names: it is handed a Row<Record>, reaches r.rec and r.h, and changes a field a column mirrors (@Column) only through a @RowVerb. A handle whose row is gone runs nothing.

# doc-check: skip — needs ludic.base's Table
reducer Deer in Herd.deer on Spook(r: mut Row<Deer>, a: Spook) {
  r.rec.fear += a.by
}