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W022 says over-arity extras are silently dropped; the runtime raises

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
76/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c

Research direction

Locate the implementation of diagnostic W022 and compare its wording with the runtime's over-arity error, using an executed call with three arguments and a two-parameter callee. Update W022, docs/DIAGNOSTICS.md, and the CLAUDE.md sentence if stale; done means all three describe the observed behavior accurately.

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Description

area:lint-tooling found-by:critic kind:docs-drift

Found by the blind critic on PR #1332, and pre-existing on main 940af49.

W022's message says the extra arguments "are silently dropped". The runtime does not drop them: a call that passes 3 arguments to a 2-parameter callee raises call passes 3 arguments but the callee takes 2. The diagnostic describes behaviour the language no longer has.

Done when

  • W022's message (and docs/DIAGNOSTICS.md) describes the current runtime behaviour, with an executed example.
  • The CLAUDE.md "over-arity ... silently dropped" sentence is checked against the runtime and corrected if stale.
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C
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