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systemic-game-design-course/course/06-parser/reference/rust
Lucas WintherandClaude Opus 5.5 21fb40c6f5 feat: robustness in Module 5 (nesting guard, Death Phase limit, well-formed Assemble, multi-summon order)
A trigger is never queued while that same (minion, trigger) is resolving;
more than DEATH_PHASE_LIMIT = 64 Death Phases is an error ('Death Phase
limit'); Assemble refuses and never offers ill-formed text (wellFormed /
well_formed); summon count > 1 places tokens in summon order. Modules 05-10,
both tracks. Four new Module 5 tests, a tools test that every shipped card
is well-formed, lessons 2, 3, 5, 13 and harness.md updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Module 6 reference engine (Rust)

The course's own engine as of the end of Module 6, the first module of Part II. Part I's card engine is unchanged, and all of its tests still pass. Beside it, in src/engine/puzzle/, is a second engine for Baba Is You: a grid of objects and text, a lexer and a parser. Module 5's reference was the starting point, so a diff between the two shows what this module adds.

  • cards/ (at the crate root; not in this directory): Part I's card data, a copy of course/cards/ staged by tools/verify-references.mjs. Part II doesn't read it.
  • src/engine/puzzle/: the Part II engine. It names no noun: the engine's own words are the operators IS, AND, NOT, the meta-noun TEXT and the property PUSH of the base rule TEXT IS PUSH.
    • grid.rs: the level format (LevelDef, course/schema/level.schema.json), object kinds ("<noun>" or "text:<WORD>") and the board: objects on tiles, several per tile allowed.
    • word.rs: the lexicon (every word the parser can read, with its role: noun, property or operator) and the lexer, which turns the text on the board into words by tile. Text whose word isn't in the lexicon spells nothing.
    • parse.rs: the parser. From every IS, in a row and in a column, it collects the AND-joined subjects before it and the AND-joined complements after it, and emits one rule per pair. Stacked words each count. Base rules come first.
    • level.rs: a level in play. Every change to the board recompiles the rules from scratch.
    • mod.rs: the module's exports.
  • The rest of src/engine/: Part I, unchanged from Module 5 except for the pub mod puzzle; line.
  • src/content/words.json: the nouns and properties the parser knows, as data ({ "name", "role" }). src/content/mod.rs reads it with include_str! as words(). A new word is a new entry here.
  • src/harness.rs: the adapter the course tests call. Module 6 adds new_baba, Baba::place and Baba::rules. rules() sorts the rules' normalised strings and keeps each distinct rule once; the engine itself keeps a rule spelled twice twice.

Run it with the module's tests: node tools/verify-references.mjs 06 from the course repository.