Found by starting the implementation: the grammar could not derive an ordinary
pitched note.
`value` had no alternative for a sequence at all, though value-projection clause 5
required one. Adding it exposed why it was missing. A sequence whose first element
is a fieldless variant is shape-identical to a struct, and `()` is both the empty
sequence and the absent option. Both collisions are reachable from the first
pitched note in any score: `PitchedEvent` carries `articulations` and `ornaments`,
sequences over the zero-field `ArticulationMark` and `OrnamentMark`, beside an
optional `DynamicMark`. One `insert-event` line holds both.
The collision is irreducible without new syntax, and new syntax buys nothing --
`req:textproj:strict-parse` already obliges a parser to reject a duplicate in a
set-typed field, which it cannot do without knowing the field is set-typed. The
parser consults the schema either way. So `req:textproj:schema-directed` states
what the ratified rules already required, `value` collapses to `"(" value* ")"` or
a leaf -- all shape can honestly say -- and the requirement assigns meaning by the
expected type. The binary form is schema-directed for the same reason and pays the
same price: its bytes do not say what they are either.
Three consequences stated: a struct with no fields is the bare symbol, as a
fieldless variant is; a byte string is not a sequence, so an opaque extension
payload and a `SoundConfiguration` project as byte strings, never as lists of
integers; and the grammar's repetitions now carry a notation rule -- adjacent
elements separated by exactly one space -- without which `"(transpose (" bytes* ")"`
spelled two targets as one undelimited run of hex.
Checker gains a seventh test, mutation-verified by restoring the 0.4.0 `value`
production and by stripping the schema-directed citations. It asserts the
symbol-headed struct alternative is *absent*: a grammar claiming to tell a struct
from a sequence by shape would be lying.
Gate green -- clippy 0, 1038 tests, doc 0, conformance 8/8, no golden churn, three
spec documents build clean with no undefined references.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Levi Neuwirth
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