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Self-healing compiler: substrate-routed typo + 2 new heal classes + per-class pragmas + budget
The heal pass now leverages the new substrate-primitive library (Zeckendorf hashing, substrate_hash, attractor bucketing) to: 1) **Substrate-routed typo correction.** New closest_name_substrate() does a two-phase scan: full O(|prefer|) over user-defined fns (the small correctness-critical half), then O(log_phi_pi_fibonacci N) bucketed scan over builtins via substrate_hash_name(). 32 buckets, probe target bucket + 2 neighbors. Falls back to full closest_name if both miss. Expected ~10x speedup on projects with hundreds of names. 2) **Two new heal classes:** - mod_zero: `x % 0` rewritten to safe_mod(x, 0) which substrate-folds the divisor to nearest non-zero attractor at runtime - missing_return: user fn with no Return statement anywhere gets `return null;` appended at the tail 3) **Per-class disable pragmas.** Each class can be opted-out per-fn without disabling the others: @no_heal_typo, @no_heal_arity, @no_heal_div, @no_heal_mod, @no_heal_index, @no_heal_return (Legacy @no_heal still disables everything for backwards-compat.) 4) **Heal budget.** Each pass capped at HEAL_BUDGET_PER_PASS = 1024 rewrites. Once exhausted, further heals silently skip (diagnostic still records but no AST mutation). Prevents runaway rewrites on pathological inputs while comfortably above any legitimate count. 5) **Per-class diagnostic counters.** New HealClassCounts struct accessible via last_heal_counts() — tracks typo / typo_substrate_hit / typo_fallback / arity_pad / arity_truncate / div_zero / mod_zero / harmonic_index / missing_return separately, so tooling can see which classes earn their keep. 6) **New safe-arithmetic builtins:** - safe_mod(a, b): substrate-folded modulus (mirrors safe_divide) - safe_sqrt(x): returns 0 for negative input (singularity-tolerant) - safe_log(x): returns -1e308 for x <= 0 Registered in is_known_builtin + HEAL_BUILTIN_NAMES. 7) **Tests.** New examples/tests/test_heal_pass.omc with 16 tests covering each heal class plus per-class pragmas. All pass. 8) **Docs.** New docs/heal_pass.md fully documents the heal pass, substrate routing, pragmas, budget, and counter API. Architecture notes: - Thread-locals (HEAL_SUBSTRATE_INDEX, HEAL_CLASS_COUNTS, HEAL_PER_CLASS_DISABLED, HEAL_BUDGET_REMAINING) avoid signature changes to heal_stmt/heal_expr — the recursive call chain stays the same width, all new state goes through the thread-local. - substrate_hash_name() lives in interpreter.rs alongside heal helpers rather than phi_pi_fib.rs because it operates on UTF-8 strings, not i64 substrate values. The hash function is the OMC builtin substrate_hash unpacked for byte input. Regression: all existing 145 OMC tests + 41 codegen tests + cargo unit tests still pass. New: 16 heal-pass tests added (161 total). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# The OMC self-healing compiler
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The heal pass is a substrate-routed AST rewriter that catches and silently fixes common bugs before they reach the interpreter or JIT. It's enabled via `OMC_HEAL=1` (or `--check FILE` for diagnostics-only).
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## Heal classes
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Each class detects one bug pattern and applies one rewrite. All run in a single AST traversal per pass; `heal_ast_until_fixpoint` loops until no more diagnostics fire.
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| Class | Pattern | Rewrite | Counter |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| **typo** | call to unknown name `foo` within edit-distance 2 of a defined name | replace name | `typo` |
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| **arity_pad** | user fn called with fewer args than declared | append `Number(0)` per missing arg | `arity_pad` |
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| **arity_truncate** | user fn called with more args than declared | drop excess args | `arity_truncate` |
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| **div_zero** | `expr / 0` (literal 0 on RHS) | rewrite to `safe_divide(expr, 0)` | `div_zero` |
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| **mod_zero** | `expr % 0` (literal 0 on RHS) | rewrite to `safe_mod(expr, 0)` | `mod_zero` |
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| **harmonic_index** | `arr[N]` where N is off-attractor and `|nearest - N| ≤ 3` | snap to nearest Fibonacci attractor | `harmonic_index` |
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| **missing_return** | user fn body has NO `return` statement anywhere | append `return null;` | `missing_return` |
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## Substrate-routed typo lookup
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The typo class is the heaviest by default — naively comparing every call site to every defined name is `O(N · m · k)` where N is the symbol table size, m the call sites, k the average name length.
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The substrate-routed implementation uses a two-phase scan:
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1. **Phase 1 (full)**: scan the small `prefer` set (user-defined fns, project-bounded). User fn matches always beat builtin matches on ties — a typo is more likely meant for a user fn than a builtin.
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2. **Phase 2 (substrate-bucketed)**: hash each builtin name into one of 32 buckets via `substrate_hash_name` (Zeckendorf-style avalanche). For a typo, probe only the target's bucket plus 2 neighbors. Expected speedup: ~10× for projects with hundreds of defined names.
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Falls back to full `closest_name` if both phases miss — preserves correctness.
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```rust
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// closest_name_substrate() in src/interpreter.rs
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// Phase 1: full O(|prefer|) scan of user fns (correctness)
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// Phase 2: 3-bucket scan of remaining builtins (speed)
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// Fallback: full closest_name() if both miss
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```
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## Per-class disable pragmas
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A function can opt out of any single heal class via a pragma without disabling the others:
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```omc
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@no_heal_typo
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fn raw_typos_allowed() {
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foo(); # NOT corrected; will hit eval error
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}
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@no_heal_div
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fn raw_div_allowed() {
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h x = 10 / 0; # NOT wrapped in safe_divide; produces Singularity
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}
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@no_heal_index
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fn raw_index_allowed() {
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h arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
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return arr[4]; # NOT snapped; uses literal index 4
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}
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@no_heal_return
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fn explicit_no_return() {
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h x = 5;
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# No `return null;` appended
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}
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@no_heal # disables ALL classes for this fn (legacy total-disable)
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fn fully_opaque() {
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# nothing healed in this fn body
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}
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```
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Available pragmas: `no_heal`, `no_heal_typo`, `no_heal_arity`, `no_heal_div`, `no_heal_mod`, `no_heal_index`, `no_heal_return`.
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## Heal budget
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Each `heal_ast` pass has a fixed budget of `HEAL_BUDGET_PER_PASS = 1024` rewrites. Once exhausted, further heals are silently skipped (the diagnostic still records the count but no AST mutation). Prevents runaway rewrites on adversarial inputs while comfortably above any legitimate project's heal count.
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## Per-class diagnostic counts
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Each pass populates a `HealClassCounts` struct accessible via `last_heal_counts()` (Rust API):
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```rust
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pub struct HealClassCounts {
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pub typo: u32,
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pub typo_substrate_hit: u32, // bucketed pre-filter found a match
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pub typo_fallback: u32, // bucketed missed → full scan was needed
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pub arity_pad: u32,
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pub arity_truncate: u32,
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pub div_zero: u32,
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pub mod_zero: u32,
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pub harmonic_index: u32,
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pub missing_return: u32,
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pub empty_index_safe: u32,
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pub reserved_var: u32,
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pub if_numeric: u32,
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}
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```
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`typo_substrate_hit` / `typo_fallback` together tell you how often the bucketed pre-filter earned its keep — a high `typo_fallback` rate signals the substrate-routing isn't picking up enough matches and the symbol-table distribution is unusual.
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## Safe-arithmetic family
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The heal classes that involve numeric ops all rewrite to `safe_*` builtins which substrate-fold their inputs at runtime:
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- `safe_divide(a, b)` — fold b to nearest non-zero attractor (1 if needed)
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- `safe_mod(a, b)` — same, applied to modulus
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- `safe_sqrt(x)` — returns 0 for x < 0 (singularity-tolerant)
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- `safe_log(x)` — returns -1e308 for x ≤ 0
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- `safe_arr_get(arr, i)` — substrate-folded index with `% len` bounds wrap
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- `safe_arr_set(arr, i, v)` — same for writes
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These can also be called explicitly when you want substrate-tolerant semantics without going through the heal pass.
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## Iterative convergence
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`heal_ast_until_fixpoint(stmts, max_iter)` loops the single-pass `heal_ast` until:
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- **converged**: zero diagnostics in last pass (all bugs fixed)
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- **stuck**: same diagnostic count two passes in a row (no further progress)
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- **exhausted**: hit `max_iter` (default 8)
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Most programs converge in 1 pass. Iteration helps when one heal exposes another (e.g. typo fix surfaces an arity mismatch on the corrected call).
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## Tests
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`examples/tests/test_heal_pass.omc` — 16 tests covering each class plus per-class pragmas. Run with:
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```bash
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OMC_HEAL=1 omnimcode-standalone --test examples/tests/test_heal_pass.omc
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```

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# Tests for the self-healing compiler.
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#
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# These tests run UNDER the heal pass (the runner enables OMC_HEAL
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# automatically when `--test` is invoked with healed-aware mode), so
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# the SUT is the heal pass itself transforming the test fn AST.
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#
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# Each test asserts that the heal observed a specific rewrite by
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# checking the RUNTIME behavior of the healed code rather than the
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# diagnostic strings (which are intentionally not stable).
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fn assert_eq(actual, expected, msg) {
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if actual != expected {
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test_record_failure(msg + ": expected " + to_string(expected) + " got " + to_string(actual));
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}
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}
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fn assert_true(cond, msg) {
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if !cond {
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test_record_failure(msg);
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}
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}
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# ---------- Divide-by-zero heal ----------
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fn test_div_zero_heal() {
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# 10 / 0 should be rewritten to safe_divide(10, 0), which substrate-
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# folds the divisor to 1 (smallest non-zero attractor) → 10.
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h x = 10 / 0;
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assert_eq(x, 10, "10/0 healed to 10 via safe_divide");
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}
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fn test_div_nonzero_unchanged() {
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h x = 10 / 2;
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assert_eq(x, 5, "10/2 untouched");
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}
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# ---------- Mod-by-zero heal ----------
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fn test_mod_zero_heal() {
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assert_eq(x, 0, "10 % 0 healed to 10 % 1 = 0");
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}
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fn test_mod_nonzero_unchanged() {
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assert_eq(x, 1, "7 % 3 untouched");
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}
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# ---------- Typo correction at call site ----------
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fn add_two_things(a, b) {
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return a + b;
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}
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fn test_typo_correction() {
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h x = add_two_thigns(2, 3);
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assert_eq(x, 5, "typo add_two_thigns -> add_two_things");
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}
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fn test_no_false_typo() {
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fn three_args(a, b, c) {
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}
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fn test_arity_pad() {
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}
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fn test_harmonic_index_off_attractor() {
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fn test_harmonic_index_on_attractor() {
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}
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}

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