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fix(hir): same-name classes get their own ClassId per scope — the inner body is no longer silently dropped (#9466) - #9527

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Wrong-code fix: a third same-name class at a different nesting depth aliased onto the second's ClassId, so its body was silently replaced — the program ran the wrong methods with no diagnostic.

Two defects, one repair

1. The over-broad idempotence guard. maybe_rename_colliding_class returned early on !class_renames.contains_key(name) — "already aliased, nothing to do." The intent (idempotence) was sound; the model was flat. class_renames is inherited by nested bodies, so a nested class X hit the early return and registered under the outer body's key. The correct condition is "already aliased by this scope."

2. Only function bodies ran the rename scan at all. Measured on unfixed main: bare blocks, if/else branches, loop bodies, try/catch/finally and both switch arm shapes all silently ran the outer class — the inner one was never lowered.

The mechanism mirrored, not invented

register_block_forward_lexicals (#6062) brackets the same block boundary for TDZ names with exactly the record-what-I-changed/undo-exactly-that shape, and rebind_nested_forward_scope_lets' doc names the funnel every {}-scope shares — which handed over the call-site list. class_renames' value becomes (registration key, scope key) with the scope key = the declaring scope's source span; enter/exit_class_rename_scope bracket lower_block_stmt, lower_block_stmt_scoped (the strict branch bypasses the former), and both switch arms.

The span key is what makes multi-funnel placement safe: a function body is scanned twice (Phase-1.5, then lower_block_stmt), and the matching key makes the second scan a no-op — without it, the second alias would strand the end-of-body capture re-registration on a stale key, which capture_rereg_renamed_class.rs guards.

Blast radius: 9 files, +482/−23; resolve_class_name one line; the 4 contains_key and 5 clone/restore sites unchanged. .name composes with #9465 for free — every new alias flows through the same site that records the display-name override.

Verification

13-arm fixture, 28 assertions, demonstrated failing on unfixed main across every scope kind — depths (top outer,inner vs …,outer), sibling blocks, branches, try/catch/finally, loop bodies, both switch shapes, closures capturing a shadowed class after its block exits, and identity (instanceof across the shadowing boundary both directions). After: byte-identical to node. One load-bearing test honesty note: the original instanceof rows sat at two-scope depth, which the old rename already handled — they guard but don't discriminate; block-boundary and third-depth instanceof arms were added, and those flip.

test_class_name_and_source_9413.ts and test_static_this_is_not_an_instance_9404.ts (PR #9465's fixtures) byte-identical.

  • perry-runtime lib --release: 2974 / 0
  • perry-codegen lib: 1383 / 0, no expectation edited
  • Parity: 1306 of 1462 paired both sides under identical conditions (the box hit ENOSPC twice under load 254 with four concurrent suites; stopped at 89% rather than poison results — stated, not implied). 8 movers, zero regressions: 1 is this fixture passing; 2 pass→compile_fail re-verified PASS in isolation; 5 are http/network churn where node_fail means node itself failed. An earlier ENOSPC window's 14 contiguous movers were each re-run individually: PASS both sides.

Cross-module (#9133) — answered with a probe, and it corrects the record

A 3-module probe shows cross-module class identity (A===B, instanceof, prototypes) was already correct before and after — HIR ClassIds are threaded globally through run_pipeline → collect_modules → lower_module_with_class_id, contradicting the "per-module ids collide" framing in the internal notes. What the probe did show: the block-scope bug reproduced independently inside every module, and this fix repairs all of them. #9133's anon-shape face is untouched.

Found, proved orthogonal, filed separately

for (…) { class C { v(){ return "c"+i } } } yields c3,c3,c3 (node: c0,c1,c2) — a capture-snapshot staleness, not an identity bug: a non-shadowed control (class Uniq alone in a loop) behaves identically before and after this change. Dropped from the fixture so it discriminates one thing.

Closes #9466.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed handling of same-named classes declared in nested and sibling scopes.
    • Improved class identity across blocks, branches, loops, exception handlers, closures, and switch cases.
    • Corrected behavior for method dispatch, instanceof, prototypes, constructors, inheritance, and source-level class names.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for class shadowing and identity across lexical scopes, including subclassing and repeated loop execution.

Ralph Küpper added 6 commits September 2, 2026 07:58
Demonstrates the aliasing on unfixed origin/main: three depths, sibling
module-top blocks, sibling blocks in a function, sibling functions,
if/else + try/catch/finally + loop bodies, a shadowed class captured in a
closure called after its block exits, instanceof across the shadowing
boundary, .name (PerryTS#9413 regression guard), and subclassing a shadowed class.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
The rename scan was missing from ALL {}-shaped scopes, not just bare
blocks, so the fixture now names each kind: bare block, if/else, loop
body, try/catch/finally, and both switch forms (a bare case
statement-list, which shares one switch block scope, and a braced case,
which is its own). Two loop arms pin the span-keyed semantics: one
declaration site is ONE class across iterations, its closures outlive
the loop, and a per-iteration capture still gets three environments.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
…ry + third depth

Arm 4's instanceof rows sit at TWO-scope depth, which the name-keyed
disambiguation already handled, so they pass before and after: they guard
the fix but do not demonstrate the gap. These two do — a block-scoped
class (never lowered at all before the fix, so its instances were
instances of the OUTER class) and a third-depth one (aliased onto the
second's ClassId).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
…ryTS#9466)

Same-name `class` declarations at different lexical depths aliased onto
one ClassId and the inner body was silently dropped — wrong code, no
diagnostic.

Two defects, one symptom.

1. The "already renamed" guard was per NAME, not per SCOPE.
   `maybe_rename_colliding_class` returned early on
   `class_renames.contains_key(name)`. But `class_renames` is INHERITED by
   nested bodies — it is snapshotted and restored per body, so an enclosing
   body's alias is live while a nested one lowers. A nested body declaring
   the same name therefore took that early return and registered its
   `class X` under the OUTER body's key. Third and later occurrences shared
   one ClassId; whichever body lowered first won.

   The map value now carries the source span of the scope that minted the
   alias, so the guard means "THIS scope already renamed it" — the
   idempotence the guard existed for — while every nested scope mints its
   own. That span key is also what makes it safe to hook the scan at more
   than one funnel: a function body is scanned twice (Phase-1.5, then
   `lower_block_stmt`) and the matching key makes the second a no-op.
   Without it the second alias would strand that body's end-of-body capture
   re-registration on a stale key — the 2026-07-02 audit P0 that
   `capture_rereg_renamed_class.rs` guards.

2. Block scopes never ran the disambiguation scan at all. Only function
   bodies did, so two sibling `{ class Blk { … } }` blocks shared one
   ClassId and the second was never lowered. Measured on unfixed main, ALL
   of these ran the outer class: bare blocks (module-level and in-function),
   `if`/`else` branches, loop bodies, `try`/`catch`/`finally`, and both
   switch forms.

   `class` is block-scoped, so `enter_class_rename_scope` /
   `exit_class_rename_scope` now bracket every `{ … }`-shaped scope,
   deliberately mirroring `register_block_forward_lexicals` (PerryTS#6062), which
   brackets the same boundary for TDZ names: record only what this scope
   changed, undo exactly that, so an alias owned by an enclosing scope
   survives. `lower_block_stmt` is the funnel `rebind_nested_forward_scope_lets`
   already documents for those scopes; the strict-mode branch of
   `lower_block_stmt_scoped` bypasses it, and switch case statement-lists
   are not `BlockStmt`s, so both take the bracket explicitly.

This is an identity fix, not a naming one: each declaration gets its own
ClassId, so `instanceof` across the shadowing boundary is right in both
directions, `Object.getPrototypeOf` disagrees with the outer prototype, and
`class Sub extends M` inside the inner scope extends the INNER `M`. `.name`
keeps reporting the source name — the PerryTS#9413 (PR PerryTS#9465) display-name
override lives on the same `lower_class_decl` site every new alias flows
through, so it composes for free.

Fixture: test-files/test_gap_9466_shadowed_class_identity.ts.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
…ent bug

`class Cp { v(){ return "cp" + i } }` in a loop body prints cp3,cp3,cp3
instead of cp0,cp1,cp2 — but that reproduces with NO name shadowing
anywhere and is byte-identical before and after this fix, so it is the
class-capture snapshot mechanism (one RegisterClassCaptures per class,
refreshed at assignments and returns; a loop body has neither), not class
identity. Filed separately; the fixture keeps discriminating one thing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
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Class disambiguation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope-keyed class rename state
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/context.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lowering_context.rs
Class aliases now include lexical scope keys. Each same-name class can receive a distinct registration key and alias.
Block and switch scope management
crates/perry-hir/src/lower_decl/block.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower_decl/body_stmt.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/stmt.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/expr_function.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower_decl/mod.rs
Block, function, and switch lowering enters and exits class-rename scopes. Alias state is restored after lowering.
Identity regression coverage
test-files/test_gap_9466_shadowed_class_identity.ts, changelog.d/9466-scope-aware-class-disambiguation.md
Tests cover nested and sibling declarations, control-flow scopes, closures, inheritance, prototypes, instanceof, dispatch, and source names. The changelog records the fix.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0bd26

Nested same-name classes can still receive the wrong shared identity in declaration-order cases, causing programs to compile or run with the wrong class methods. The PR is not merge-ready until that correctness issue is fixed or explicitly accepted; switch error-path cleanup also requires owner awareness.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ClassDeclaration
  participant BlockLowering
  participant LoweringContext
  participant RuntimeChecks
  ClassDeclaration->>BlockLowering: declare same-name class
  BlockLowering->>LoweringContext: enter scope and mint alias
  LoweringContext-->>BlockLowering: distinct registration key
  BlockLowering->>RuntimeChecks: lower class body and restore scope
  RuntimeChecks-->>ClassDeclaration: verify dispatch, prototype, and instanceof identity
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the HIR fix: same-name classes receive distinct ClassIds per scope, preventing the inner class body from being dropped. It is specific and related to the primary change.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #9466. They add per-scope class rename tracking, scan block-shaped scopes, preserve class identity and names, and add coverage for nested scopes, sibling scopes, closures, su…
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if self.lookup_class(name).is_none() {
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reserve enclosing class identities before nested scopes lower.

lookup_class(name) is None when a nested block appears before a same-named direct class in its enclosing function body. Phase-1.5 records that outer declaration only in forward_class_names; it does not register a ClassId. The nested class X then remains unaliased and registers as X. The later enclosing class X collides with that registration and can share the wrong ClassId.

Track unresolved enclosing declarations by lexical scope, or pre-register their distinct identities before lowering nested scopes.

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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/context.rs` around lines 494 - 496, Update the
class-resolution logic around lookup_class so same-named direct class
declarations in an enclosing function receive reserved, distinct ClassIds before
nested blocks are lowered. Track unresolved declarations per lexical scope or
pre-register their identities during the existing forward-class handling,
ensuring a nested class does not register under the enclosing declaration’s name
and the later direct declaration reuses only its reserved identity.

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