Fix #698, #699, #700: replace, count loop cap, exit program - #710
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Failing tests first, against unmodified source (16 of 19 fail): * #698 `replace <pattern> with <text> in <text>` returns the input unchanged, exit 0, no diagnostic; no literal string replacement is reachable from WFL source at all. * #699 the `count` loop's trip cap is keyed on the loop's end *value*, so `count from 1 to 20000` aborts at 10001 while `count from 1 to 1000001` runs uncapped, and a downward loop is capped by the value it counts down to. * #700 `exit program` does not parse; no spelling terminates the program. The three that already pass pin behaviour the fix must not change: a non-matching pattern leaves its text alone, a non-text/non-pattern needle is refused, and bare `exit`/`exit loop` still leaves the loop and lets the program continue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWCp6cVEGQ5pVfKC7FDdUh
…ram stops the program Closes #698, #699, #700. #698 — `replace <pattern> with <text> in <text>` validated its three arguments and then returned the input unchanged: it parsed, type-checked, ran, exited 0 and produced a wrong answer with no diagnostic. `native_pattern_replace` now replaces every match, walking character offsets (the pattern VM reports characters, so byte slicing would panic on multibyte input) in one forward pass over the non-overlapping matches. The needle may now also be a plain text, matched verbatim, which is what makes literal string replacement reachable at all: `replace` lexes as a keyword, so the 3-argument native `replace` in stdlib/text.rs could never be called from WFL source and the language shipped with no reachable string replacement. The type checker accepts Pattern or Text there, so the beginner form and the expert form are the same statement. #699 — the count loop's trip guard was keyed on the loop's end *value*: `count from 1 to 20000` aborted at 10001 trips while `count from 1 to 1000001` ran uncapped, and a downward loop was capped by the value it counted down to. The cap is gone; `count` is bounded by the same execution timeout as `repeat` and `for each`, which check_time() already enforces on every trip. What replaces it is narrower: a step that cannot move the counter toward the end value (`by 0`, or negative) is refused up front with a diagnostic that names the step, instead of spinning until the timeout. #700 — `exit program`, the spelling in both keyword reference pages, did not parse ("Variable 'program' is not defined", exit 3), and bare `exit` was ignored at top level, so program termination had no working spelling. `ExitStatement` now carries an `ExitScope`: `exit` / `exit loop` keep their existing meaning, and `exit program` raises an `ErrorKind::ExitProgram` sentinel — an error only so it unwinds action calls and expression evaluation, neither of which carries a control-flow channel. It is deliberately uncatchable: `when error` re-raises it (`finally` still runs), include/module frames pass it through unwrapped, the concurrent main loop propagates it instead of treating it as a handler failure, and the top of the run turns it back into a successful finish — remaining top-level statements and `main` are skipped, streams and pending requests are still finalized, exit status 0. Docs ship with the change: new "Replacing Matches" (pattern-matching), `pattern_replace` (pattern module), `replace` (text module), new "Stopping the Program" with the break / exit loop / exit program table (control flow), the count-loop step rule and trip-limit wording plus `exit loop` alongside `break` (loops), and both keyword reference pages. End-to-end WFL coverage in TestPrograms/replace_and_count_loop_test.wfl and TestPrograms/exit_program_test.wfl; Dev Diary entry added. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWCp6cVEGQ5pVfKC7FDdUh
The bare/loop spelling has nothing to leave at top level, exactly like a `break` written outside a loop. Naming that next to the exit table stops a reader reaching for `exit` when they mean `exit program` (#700). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWCp6cVEGQ5pVfKC7FDdUh
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes loop validation and program termination, but the current tests do not cover negative or non-finite loop steps, bare exit compatibility, or unexpected continuation after exit program. These gaps leave concrete regression paths unguarded, so the PR is not fully merge-ready until the tests are strengthened or the risk is explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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When a count loop executes under either form of main loop, the guard entered by Statement::MainLoop makes check_time() disable both the wall-clock deadline and operation ceiling. Removing the trip ceiling therefore lets a request-controlled huge range—or a positive finite step that cannot advance a large f64, such as adding 1 to 1e308—occupy a handler forever; in a serial server this blocks all requests, and enough concurrent handlers can exhaust every slot. Retain a resource/trip bound while deadline-exempt or enforce a per-handler deadline instead of relying solely on check_time().
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When exit program runs inside an on websocket handler, this sentinel reaches dispatch_ws_event, whose unconditional error handler at lines 13414–13421 prints it as a WebSocket handler error and returns Ok(()). The event pump and the rest of the program therefore continue, so the new Program scope does not actually stop the program in this callback context. Handle ExitProgram specially in the dispatcher and propagate it to interpret() rather than swallowing it.
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🟡 Stopping the program is silently turned into an error report in websocket handlers and test blocks
The request to stop the program is raised as an error (RuntimeError::exit_program at src/interpreter/mod.rs:7890) that two places treat as an ordinary failure, so a program asking to stop inside a websocket handler or a test block prints or records an error and keeps running instead of stopping.
Impact: Users following the documentation ("it works anywhere") see a spurious error message or a failed test, and the program does not stop.
Where the sentinel is absorbed instead of propagated
The new ExitProgram sentinel is filtered out at the try/when boundary (src/interpreter/mod.rs:9138), module/include frames (src/interpreter/mod.rs:8602, src/interpreter/mod.rs:8782), the concurrent main loop (src/interpreter/mod.rs:6355) and the top of the run (src/interpreter/mod.rs:6864). Two other error-absorbing boundaries were not updated:
- WebSocket event dispatch swallows any handler error and merely prints it:
if let Err(err) = self.execute_block(&body, child_env).await { eprintln!("WebSocket {} handler error: {}", ...) }(src/interpreter/mod.rs:13414-13420). Anexit programinsideon websocket message:therefore printsWebSocket message handler error: exit programand the pump continues. Statement::TestBlockrecords any non-assertion error as a test failure (src/interpreter/mod.rs:13127-13152), soexit programinside atestblock is reported as a failing test and the run continues with a nonzero exit status — the opposite of the documented "clean stop is a successful stop".
Both sites need the same err.is_exit_program() pass-through used elsewhere.
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The new `ErrorKind::ExitProgram` sentinel (raised by `exit program`, see `RuntimeError::exit_program` in src/interpreter/error.rs) is deliberately passed through at try/when, module, include, concurrent-main-loop and top-of-run boundaries. Two other boundaries in src/interpreter/mod.rs still absorb every error and therefore swallow the stop request: the WebSocket event dispatch (`execute_block(&body, child_env)` whose error is only `eprintln!`-ed, around src/interpreter/mod.rs:13414) and the `Statement::TestBlock` handler (around src/interpreter/mod.rs:13124-13155) which records non-assertion errors as test failures. Add the same `err.is_exit_program()` early return / re-raise at both sites so `exit program` inside a websocket handler or a `describe`/`test` block stops the run cleanly instead of printing a bogus handler error or recording a failing test.
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| // A step that cannot move the counter toward the end value would | ||
| // spin until the execution timeout, so it is refused up front | ||
| // with a diagnostic that names the problem. `count` always moves | ||
| // *toward* its end value (a downward loop subtracts the step), so | ||
| // the step is a magnitude and must be a positive, finite number. | ||
| if !step_num.is_finite() || step_num <= 0.0 { | ||
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| *self.in_count_loop.borrow_mut() = was_in_count_loop; | ||
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🟡 Count loops that previously did nothing now abort the program with an error
A count loop whose step is zero or negative is now rejected before the loop range is even considered (step_num <= 0.0 check at src/interpreter/mod.rs:7412), so an existing program whose loop simply never ran now stops with a runtime error.
Impact: Programs that used to run fine — because the loop range was empty and the step never mattered — now fail at runtime.
Behaviour before vs after
Before this change, the step value was only used inside the loop. For count from 5 to 1 by 0 (or count from 5 to 1 by (0 minus 1)) the guard should_continue(5, 1) is false, so the body never ran, iterations stayed 0, and the statement completed successfully. The same applies to a downward loop whose start is already past its end, e.g. count from 1 down to 5 by 0.
After the change, the validation at src/interpreter/mod.rs:7407-7424 runs unconditionally after evaluating start/end/step, so those programs now fail with "Count loop step must be a positive number". AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md state backward compatibility is sacred (never break existing WFL programs without a documented deprecation path).
Moving the check so it only fires when the loop would actually be entered (i.e. when should_continue(start_num, end_num) is true) keeps the runaway-loop protection while preserving the old no-op behaviour for empty ranges.
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In src/interpreter/mod.rs the new count-loop step validation (rejecting non-finite, zero or negative steps) runs unconditionally right after start/end/step are evaluated. Previously such a step was harmless when the loop range was empty: `count from 5 to 1 by 0` and `count from 5 to 1 by -1` never entered the body and completed successfully, because `should_continue(start, end)` was false. The new check turns those into runtime errors, which breaks existing programs (backward compatibility is a binding repo rule). Consider only validating the step when the loop would actually be entered — e.g. compute `should_continue` first and apply the step check only if the first trip would run — so the runaway-loop diagnostic is kept without changing behaviour for loops that never execute.
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| // `exit program`: a successful stop, not a failure. Nothing is | ||
| // reported and nothing further runs. | ||
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🔍 exit program inside execute file stops only the child program
A nested execute file runs its program through a fresh child.interpret(&program) (src/interpreter/mod.rs:5834), and interpret now converts the sentinel into a successful finish. Consequently exit program inside an executed file stops only that file and the parent keeps running — defensible (a separate program), but it is a semantic distinction the new "Stopping the Program" docs do not mention, unlike load module / include from, which do propagate it.
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| // No trip-count ceiling: `count` is bounded by the same | ||
| // execution timeout as `repeat` and `for each` (checked below on | ||
| // every trip), so an ordinary long loop runs and a runaway one | ||
| // still stops. The previous guard keyed on the *end value*, which | ||
| // capped `count from 1 to 20000` while letting | ||
| // `count from 1 to 1000001` run uncapped (issue #699). | ||
| while should_continue(count, end_num) { |
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🔍 Removing the trip cap leaves count loops unbounded inside main loop
The docs added in Docs/03-language-basics/loops-and-iteration.md say a runaway count loop is stopped by the execution timeout. That holds for ordinary code, but check_time() skips the deadline while the main-loop exemption depth is non-zero (Statement::MainLoop enters self.budget.enter_main_loop()), so a huge/never-advancing count loop inside a main loop (or inside a request handler) has neither a trip cap nor a deadline now. Note that for end values above 1,000,000 the old guard was already u64::MAX, so this is a widening of an existing gap rather than a new one — and floating-point stagnation (count += step where step is below the ULP of count) can also loop forever with a positive, finite step that passes the new validation.
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Pull request overview
Fixes three long-standing WFL behavior gaps across the stdlib, parser/AST, interpreter, and type checker: pattern/text replacement now actually mutates output (#698), count loops no longer abort based on the end value (#699), and exit program is parsed and cleanly terminates execution via an interpreter sentinel (#700). This is reinforced with new Rust integration tests, end-to-end WFL test programs, and documentation updates across language basics, pattern docs, and keyword references.
Changes:
- Implement real replacement semantics for
replace <pattern or text> with <text> in <text>, including a literal-text needle path and Unicode-safe match offset handling. - Remove the incorrect
countloop trip cap and replace it with upfront validation that rejects non-positive/non-finite step values. - Add
exit programend-to-end support (AST scope, parsing, interpreter sentinel propagation/handling) and update tests + docs accordingly.
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| tests/issues_698_700_test.rs | New regression tests exercising replacement, count loop behavior, and exit program via real binary execution. |
| TestPrograms/replace_and_count_loop_test.wfl | End-to-end WFL assertions for replacement and count loop semantics. |
| TestPrograms/exit_program_test.wfl | End-to-end program ensuring exit program stops execution cleanly (exit 0, no trailing output). |
| src/typechecker/mod.rs | Type checker now accepts Pattern or Text as the replacement needle. |
| src/stdlib/pattern.rs | Implements actual replacement logic; adds literal-text needle support. |
| src/parser/stmt/actions.rs | Parser recognizes exit loop and exit program and annotates scope. |
| src/parser/ast.rs | Adds ExitScope and stores it on ExitStatement. |
| src/interpreter/mod.rs | Removes end-value-keyed count cap; adds step validation; implements exit program unwinding and top-level handling. |
| src/interpreter/error.rs | Adds ErrorKind::ExitProgram sentinel plus helpers for propagation and identification. |
| History/dev-diary/2026/2026-08-14-issues-698-700-replace-count-cap-exit-program.md | Dev diary entry documenting the issues, fixes, and testing approach. |
| Docs/reference/reserved-keywords.md | Updates keyword reference entries for exit and replace. |
| Docs/reference/keyword-reference.md | Clarifies exit semantics and broadens replace description. |
| Docs/05-standard-library/text-module.md | Adds user-facing replace documentation for text replacement (and pattern needle option). |
| Docs/05-standard-library/pattern-module.md | Adds pattern_replace documentation and notes on literal insertion (no capture backrefs). |
| Docs/04-advanced-features/pattern-matching.md | Adds “Replacing Matches” section describing replace with pattern/text needles. |
| Docs/03-language-basics/loops-and-iteration.md | Documents positive step semantics and removal of any built-in trip limit. |
| Docs/03-language-basics/control-flow.md | Adds “Stopping the Program” section documenting exit program vs exit loop/break. |
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In `@Docs/04-advanced-features/pattern-matching.md`:
- Around line 306-308: Update the output fences to use the text language
identifier at Docs/04-advanced-features/pattern-matching.md lines 306-308 and
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- Around line 175-190: Extend the count-loop failure coverage near
count_loop_rejects_a_step_that_never_reaches_the_end with separate tests for a
negative step that moves away from the end value and a non-finite step. Each
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Add language identifiers to all output fences.
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In `@Docs/04-advanced-features/pattern-matching.md` around lines 306 - 308, Update
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Six failing tests, one per defect found reviewing the fix: * `exit program` inside a websocket handler is printed as a handler error and the event pump carries on (the process runs its `wait for` window out and then executes the statements after it). * `exit program` inside a `test` block is recorded as a test failure and the run continues with a nonzero status. * `count from 5 to 1 by 0` — an empty range whose body never runs — is now a runtime error, where it used to complete silently. Same for the downward form. This is a backward-compatibility break. * A step below the counter's floating-point resolution (`100000000000000000 by 1`) passes validation and never advances, so the loop spins until the execution timeout instead of being refused up front. * The replace-needle diagnostic renders "Expected Pattern or Text to replace, got Number - Expected Pattern but found Number", contradicting itself. Three further tests pin behaviour the fixes must not change: a negative step is refused, bare `exit` leaves a loop like `exit loop`, and bare `exit` outside a loop leaves the program running. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWCp6cVEGQ5pVfKC7FDdUh
Follow-ups from review of the #698-#700 fix. `exit program` was still absorbed at two boundaries that swallow a `Result`: * the websocket event dispatcher reported every handler error and returned `Ok(())`, so stopping inside `on websocket message:` printed a bogus handler error and the pump kept running; * a `test` block records any non-assertion error as a test failure, so stopping inside a test produced a failing test and a nonzero exit. Both now use the same `is_exit_program()` pass-through as the try/when, module, include and top-of-run boundaries. Count loops: * the new step validation ran unconditionally, so `count from 5 to 1 by 0` — an empty range whose body never runs, and which completed fine before — became a runtime error. It is now checked only when the loop is entered, restoring the old behaviour for ranges that never run. * a positive, finite step is not always a step: past 2^53 the counter's resolution exceeds it, `count + step == count`, and the loop can never reach its end. The execution timeout would not save it inside a `main loop`, where the deadline is suspended, so the loop now stops the moment the counter provably cannot move. The replace-needle type error accepted two types while naming one, so rendering appended a contradicting "Expected Pattern but found Number"; `expected` is now left unset. Docs: the count-loop page states the `main loop` deadline exemption instead of implying the timeout covers every runaway loop, and documents the precision floor on steps and that an empty range ignores its step. The control-flow page says what "the program" means for `exit program` — `load module`/`include` are part of it, an `execute file` child is not — and that a websocket handler stops the server rather than logging an error. `TestPrograms/exit_program_test.wfl` now ends its unreachable branch in a read of a file that cannot exist, so continuing past the stop fails the gated run instead of just printing a line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PWCp6cVEGQ5pVfKC7FDdUh
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Thanks — the reviews found five real defects in the fix. All are addressed in c3448d1, with the red tests in d2b6bea (test-only, ancestor of the fix). One consolidated reply rather than nine threads. FixedThe stop sentinel was swallowed at two more boundaries. Both confirmed by reading the code, both now use the same
The general lesson, recorded in the dev diary: adding an out-of-band signal means auditing every site that absorbs a The step check broke a working program ( A positive step is not always a step. Past 2^53 the counter's resolution exceeds the step, The needle diagnostic contradicted itself. Also folded in: separate tests for bare Not fixed, with reasonsBounding count loops inside a deadline-exempt The removed cap was never a control against it: it only bit loops whose end value was below 1,000,000, so anything wanting an unbounded loop just passed a larger number — as Devin's own note says, this widens an existing gap rather than creating one. The exemption is also not specific to count loops: The real answer is a per-handler deadline, which is a design change rather than a bug fix and deserves its own issue. What I did do is close the half that genuinely never terminates (the precision stall above) and make the docs honest — A non-finite step test. Not reachable from WFL source: an over-long numeric literal fails lexing, and Markdown fence language identifiers. Skipped deliberately. The repo has no markdownlint config, and bare fences are the established convention for
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src/stdlib/pattern.rs:258
- In the literal-needle branch,
text.replace(...)allocates a newString, and thenArc::from(<string>.as_str())allocates again to copy into theArc<str>. You can avoid the extra allocation by converting theStringdirectly intoArc<str>.
Value::Text(needle) => {
return Ok(Value::Text(Arc::from(
text.replace(needle.as_ref(), replacement).as_str(),
)));
}
src/stdlib/pattern.rs:309
Ok(Value::Text(Arc::from(result.as_str())))copiesresultinto a new allocation. Sinceresultis already aString, convert it directly intoArc<str>to reuse the allocation and avoid the extra copy.
result.extend(chars);
Ok(Value::Text(Arc::from(result.as_str())))
}
Summary
This change fixes three long-standing bugs found together while porting a large program to WFL:
replace <pattern> with <text> in <text>is a silent no-op: returns the input unchanged, exit 0, no diagnostic (and literal string replace is unreachable) #698 —replace <pattern> with <text> in <text>validated its arguments but returned the input unchanged, silently producing wrong answers with exit status 0. Additionally, literal string replacement was unreachable from WFL source becausereplacelexes as a keyword.countloop iteration cap is inverted: keyed on the end value, socount from 1 to 20000aborts whilecount from 1 to 1000001runs uncapped #699 — thecountloop's trip guard was keyed on the loop's end value rather than trip count, causingcount from 1 to 20000to abort at 10,001 trips whilecount from 1 to 1000001ran uncapped.exit program(as documented in the keyword reference) does not parse; bareexitis a silent no-op at top level #700 —exit program(the documented spelling) failed to parse, and bareexitdid nothing at top level, leaving program termination with no working spelling.Key Changes
Pattern replacement (#698):
native_pattern_replaceinsrc/stdlib/pattern.rsnow actually performs replacement by walking character offsets (not byte offsets, which would panic on multibyte text) in a single forward passPatternor plainText(matched verbatim), making literal string replacement reachable:replace "world" with "there" in sPatternandTextin the needle position, unifying beginner and expert forms per the no-unlearning invariantCount loop iteration cap (#699):
src/interpreter/mod.rsthat incorrectly limited tripsrepeatandfor eachProgram termination (#700):
ExitScopeenum tosrc/parser/ast.rsdistinguishingexit loop(leaves enclosing loops) fromexit program(terminates the program)src/parser/stmt/actions.rsnow recognizes both formsexit programis raised asErrorKind::ExitProgramsentinel insrc/interpreter/error.rs— it unwinds like an error (through loops, actions, expressions) but is deliberately not catchable bywhen errorhandlerssrc/interpreter/mod.rscatches the sentinel, skips remaining top-level statements and themainaction, finalizes cleanup, and exits with status 0exitat top level remains a no-op for backward compatibilityTesting
tests/issues_698_700_test.rswith 19 tests covering all three issues (16 initially failing, 3 pinning preserved behavior)replace <pattern> with <text> in <text>is a silent no-op: returns the input unchanged, exit 0, no diagnostic (and literal string replace is unreachable) #698 andexit program(as documented in the keyword reference) does not parse; bareexitis a silent no-op at top level #700 where the old failure was a wrong answer with status 0TestPrograms/replace_and_count_loop_test.wfl(10 assertions) andTestPrograms/exit_program_test.wflDocumentation
Docs/03-language-basics/control-flow.mdwith new "Stopping the Program" section documentingexit programand the distinction fromexit loopDocs/03-language-basics/loops-and-iteration.mdto clarify count loop step semantics and remove the (now-incorrect) trip limit documentationreplacefunction documentation toDocs/05-standard-library/text-module.mdpattern_replacedocumentation toDocs/05-standard-library/pattern-module.mdDocs/04-advanced-features/pattern-matching.mdexit loopfromexit programhttps://claude.ai/code/session_01PWCp6cVEGQ5pVfKC7FDdUh
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exit programfor successful program termination, including use within loops, actions, and error-handling blocks.exit loopbehavior.Bug Fixes
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