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CS-16 · Preserve the Distinction When Adapting

Proposed governing text · 0.2.0-review

Aliases: anti-pattern; cargo cult; scope; full name; reference code; learning.

The full identity is Chainable + Composable Traits as Stories with Telescopic Organization. Read it as a connected engineering method, not a checklist of syntax. A story is the compile-time abstraction; its occurrences still have real data and changing facts. Telescoping connects readable commitment to implementation without collapsing one into the other.

Do not infer: every value must be zero-sized; every function needs a trait; every stage needs all outcomes; every trait must be sealed; every later argument retargets work; all similar code must be shared; all sharing is bad; a move guarantees distributed completion; a receipt grants current access; a green build approves a policy change.

Full reference code demonstrates one carefully scoped realization. Lesson excerpts and what-if discussions develop judgment. Neither an implementation's incidental shape nor a learning exercise becomes a universal rule by repetition.

Related: CS-01, CS-02, CS-03, CS-04, CS-05, CS-06, CS-07, CS-08, CS-09, CS-10, CS-11, CS-12, CS-13, CS-14, CS-15.

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