Radix 0.8.0

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Minor release spanning bootstrap Phase 5 (Faber-in-Faber compiler) and several language-level changes including a breaking modifier syntax migration, contextual keyword resolution, and new test-hook keywords.

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Bootstrap Phase 5 — TypeScript → Faber AST port#

The bootstrap compiler (fons-fab/) tracks all 92 TypeScript AST types as native Faber definitions across expressia, sententia, and lexema surfaces.

• Adds positio (position) and lexema (token) types plus a Zig codegen fix for enum member naming (2f1782649)
• Renames AST files to Latin and adds radix/expressia/{nomen,littera} — identifier and literal types (2e9eae7e9)
• Completes the expressia subtree: operatio (binary), vocatio (call), collectio (collection), lambda, and index (e0340a42f)
• Latinizes all bootstrap AST type names, field names, and enums across expressia, lexema, positio, and radix (d4fd17697)
• Adds all sententia (statement) types: functio, genus, actio, discretio, error, imperium, ordo, proba, varia (51c64cd5d)
• Fills remaining expressia gaps: ObiectumForma, CatenaExpressia, PraefixumExpressia (561dc8846)
• Implements the bootstrap Lexor (tokenizer) module with keyword lookup, error codes, and a lexare() entry point; fixes Zig getCurator() default from throwing to returning 'alloc' (78d91db90)
• Documents bootstrap patterns and adds inline code comments to the lexor (b85a7703a)
• Adds Phase 5 bootstrap analysis with effort estimates, structural challenges, and blocking issues to consilia/bootstrap.md (b99ed3735)

Language: postfix function modifiers and curata keyword#

BREAKING: Function modifiers (futura, iterator) move from prefix to postfix position — declarations now start with fn uniformly.

# Before
futura functio fetch(url) -> Response

# After
functio fetch(url) futura -> Response

Adds the curata modifier for allocator-managed functions. A function declared curata alloc receives an allocator bound to the given name; call sites must be inside a cura block. (14bb1368d)

Language: contextual keyword resolution#

Implements the reserved-conflicts.md design: keywords are accepted as identifiers in positions where context disambiguates intent — field names in genus declarations, parameter names, loop variables, catch parameters, discerne variant bindings, lambda parameters, and object keys. Structural contexts (statement start, declarations) remain strict. (b4011e2e7)

Test syntax: praepara / postpara test hooks#

Replaces the overloaded cura test-hook keywords (cura ante, cura post) with dedicated praepara / postpara keyword pairs. Adds -bit suffix for async variants (praeparabit, postparabit). cura is now resource- management only. Updates all codegen targets (TS, Python, Rust, C++, Zig, Faber). (5dc13f073)

Corresponding bootstrap AST rename: CuraMassa → PraeparaMassa with a PraeparaTempus enum (c3987f751).

Zig codegen: self.alloc pattern for collection fields#

Structs with list/map/set fields automatically add an alloc: std.mem.Allocator field, init() takes an allocator as the first parameter, and methods use self.alloc for collection operations. (1a4793b02)

Other changes#

• Simplifies bootstrap field names from compound workarounds to plain identifiers (e.g. typusAdnotatio → typus) now that contextual keyword resolution is available (450f054a3)
• Removes consilia/futura/reserved-conflicts.md — its design has been implemented in commit b4011e2 (1ac7617c8)

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