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Brief: #1048, a function type that may pause, with two view parameters and a view result, has no lifetime

Score: compiler bug, false acceptance (nikaia check passes, rustc Missing lifetime specifier), text and lists alike; one cause traced, one branch to widen.

Facts: Where things live, Traps already met, Commands

Issue #1048 (copied; rows a-c probed by the architect on the fast binary at 1e5b0a7c)

fn longer(a: ref String, b: ref String) -> ref String {
    if a.len() >= b.len() {
        return a
    }
    return b
}
fn apply(g: fn(ref String, ref String) -> ref String, a: ref String) -> i64 {
    return g(a, a).len()
}
fn main() {
    println(f"{apply(longer, "abc")}")
}

Rows:

Suspected location (traced, sure for a-c)

To build

  1. Before any edit, run rows a-d on the current binary; keep the results under Tests:.
  2. The fix above. Test tests/compiler/tests/a_function_type_with_two_views.nika + .stdout: rows a, b, c (and d), one apply each, printing their answers. Commit emit: a function type that may pause, with two views in and a view out, names one lifetime (Fixes #1048).

Done when

The new test fails on the unfixed compiler and passes through nikaia test --project tests/compiler --both-settings (by name); the tests/compiler tests whose names contain function_type, code_param or lambda pass (ls tests/compiler/tests | grep -E ..., run by name); lower-std fixpoint clean (no tools/*.nika change expected: lowered/emit_core_types.rs only); build, fmt, clippy, pre-push-check.sh; committed locally. Changelog: one line. Stop about 15 turns before max_turns, commit what is finished and report partial.

Stop and report if

An edit is needed outside emit_core_types.nika, its lowered twin and the test; rustc refuses every for<'call> form over AsyncFn (then report blocked with the lowered line and rustc’s message); an error in another agent’s file.

Not yours, never stage: every file git status shows modified or untracked at your start, and every docs/briefs/* file except your report.

Rules (CLAUDE.md; this block is pasted into every brief, also a fix-forward)

Report (at most 15 lines, to exactly /home/user/Nikaia/docs/briefs/bugs/b11-1048-two-view-function-type.md.report.md)

Fields of docs/architect.md, Briefs and reports: Result: done|noop|partial|blocked (the bare word alone on that line: Result: done, never a summary after it, which cuts the batch, b869a 2026-10-27; Owner: is a question for the owner or none, never a role), Files, Commit, Body (optional, one paragraph for the commit message), Fixes, Pushed, Tests, Gate (green|red), Deviation, Found, Needs, Changelog, Owner, Disk freed, and for a move Rs2nika: (the kept N of M lines of rs2nika --score, then the three costliest hand edits; none for a task that moves no Rust, none (redesign) for a brief with Shape: redesign and no Convert: line). none where nothing, and then the bare word: Deviation: none (a note) cuts the batch (batch.nika compares exactly); a note goes into the commit message. Found: is only for a defect outside your change (it cuts the batch); a process event such as another session resetting or rewriting your files is no Found:, it goes under Needs: (m3a 2026-10-28); a converter draft that came out wrong is no Found:, it is one of the costliest edits under Rs2nika:, which the converter lane reads (e12-4b 2026-10-27); how you solved your own step goes into the commit message. Deviation: is only a step of the brief built otherwise than written or not built (a choice the brief left to you, such as keep what X needs and say so, is no deviation: it goes into the commit message; nor is building two steps in one commit when every step is built, e12-3a 2026-10-27, nor a step another commit on develop already built, shown by your test failing with that commit’s change reverted, b889 2026-10-27: name the commit in Body:, nor a test’s expected .stdout/.stderr taken from what the program really prints where the brief’s sketch of it was short or wrong, b934 2026-10-29: say so in Body:, nor a lowering that follows the ADR governing it where the brief’s expected lowering contradicts that ADR, b933 2026-10-29: name the ADR in Body:, nor a lowering other than the brief’s where rustc cannot take the brief’s, b1029 2026-10-31: say why in Body:, nor re-keying an allow-list entry (KNOWN) whose hash changed for the same program and the same reason, b-fixforward-sweep2 2026-10-28: say so in Body:, nor an existing test’s expected .stdout/.stderr updated because your change rightly changes the message it prints, b1012b 2026-10-31: name the test in Body:); how you verified (e.g. a test not run against the unfixed compiler) goes under Tests:. A noop says why under Tests: (what was probed), not under Deviation:. Final answer, one line: done <sha>, report <path> (or BLOCKED: ... / PUSH REJECTED ...).

Attribution: Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 noreply@anthropic.com Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GFeMqxRbtUMiGVyDMxsvEq

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