feat: support optional-capture conditional expressions

Reuse canonical matches for optional presence and exact by-value payload captures across checking, lowering and compile-time selection.

Snapshot the optional-match flag before selector construction: AST additions can reallocate storage and invalidate the borrowed tree until refresh.

Verified 268 bootstrap tests and 908 interpreter/native programs at -O0 and -O2, plus native allocator, LLVM and CLI checks.

TODO.md

@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ runtime `undefined` locals and compute fully initialized materializable constant
 the existing `ArrayList` uses nested generic inference, file-local helpers and
 the real imported C allocator through native execution; interpreter checks use
 non-FFI allocators and cover zero-sized storage, growth, failure and cleanup.
-boolean `if ... else` expressions reuse checked matches for runtime/constant values,
-contextual optional/fallible results and generated types; yielding blocks remain open.
+boolean and optional-capture `if ... else` expressions reuse checked matches for
+runtime/constant values, contextual optional/fallible results and generated types;
+yielding blocks remain open.
 the driver retains frontend storage and source provenance through
 `@source/compilation`, with compilation-wide AST node identities.
 file commands retain single-file behavior; directory commands compile the
@@ -124,9 +125,10 @@ test discovery and FFI remain outside these completed slices.
   - [x] type-metadata reflection checkpoint: `typeinfo!(T)` uses the actual `@std/meta` ABI to classify supported types and expose array child/length, immediate distinct backing, record names/tuple/layout and enum/record fields through interpreter/native execution. readonly owned metadata collections retain exact nominal/type leaves, ordinal indices, composed enum identity, checked projections, by-value iteration/copies and compile-time procedure boundaries. ordinary/inline matches select runtime bodies; reflected fields drive `field!`, generics and generated storage/defaults. arity/type/import/ABI failures, match/capture validation, bounds, readonly updates, runtime escape rejection, imported provenance, shared construction bounds and repeatable compilation retain diagnostics and ownership. existing `meta.EnumFieldStruct` and `enummap.EnumMap` generated storage are verified without replacement library code; full `enummap.init/get` is covered below, while general type-valued execution and broader constant materialization remain open.
   - [x] enum-map acceptance checkpoint: existing `enummap.init/get` run through interpreter/native execution with sparse/aliased/composed enum keys, absent entries and owned aggregate values. contextual `.tag` and aggregate arguments reuse key/value types inferred from rigid generated-map arguments; unresolved generics and rigid conflicts still diagnose. `some!` constructs exact, single-evaluation optional payloads and preserves nested present-null values through compile-time results, cache keys and generated defaults. concrete mutable runtime locals initialize from `undefined`, including nested record/array updates, pointer access and by-value copies; ordinary compile-time procedures materialize fully initialized storage and reject incomplete snapshots. native undefined storage is poison, not zeroed or per-leaf checked. `get` now explicitly returns `null` on lookup fallthrough, preserving the ordinary nonvoid return contract.
   - [x] array-list acceptance checkpoint: existing `std/arraylist` and `std/mem` initialize, reserve/grow, append/pop/clear and release ordinary/aggregate/zero-sized storage without replacement library code. nested generic inference canonicalizes generated types through pointers and derives exact slice `.ptr` types; rigid conflicts remain diagnostic. `minval!`/`maxval!` preserve integer types and checked `divtrunc!` traps on zero and signed overflow through interpreter/native execution. file-local helpers retain real `@hide:file` visibility, newline `else` preserves match default arms, and repeated `_` parameters remain sinks. generated C records, nominal opaque pointers and foreign callbacks load from existing `ffi/c`; unused unsupported signatures neither diagnose nor emit external symbols, while demanded unsupported ABI/types diagnose. interpreter fixed-capacity allocator checks cover failure without losing storage and deferred error cleanup; native `mem.c_allocator` checks cover aggregate growth and over-aligned allocation/reallocation at `-O0`/`-O2`. arbitrary interpreter FFI, variadic/aggregate C calls and broader library acceptance remain open.
-  - [x] boolean conditional-expression checkpoint: `if (guard) then_value else else_value` reuses canonical matches through interpreter/native execution. guards evaluate once and only the selected expression executes; nested conditionals bind `else` to the nearest conditional. exact result types, aggregate copy isolation, contextual optional/fallible channels, direct `$()` values, constant-input procedures, generic branch selection and nested generated type positions retain existing checked execution. missing `else`, nonboolean guards and incompatible runtime branch types diagnose. optional captures, yielding value blocks, compound updates and bitwise operators remain open before hash-map acceptance.
+  - [x] boolean conditional-expression checkpoint: `if (guard) then_value else else_value` reuses canonical matches through interpreter/native execution. guards evaluate once and only the selected expression executes; nested conditionals bind `else` to the nearest conditional. exact result types, aggregate copy isolation, contextual optional/fallible channels, direct `$()` values, constant-input procedures, generic branch selection and nested generated type positions retain existing checked execution. missing `else`, nonboolean guards and incompatible runtime branch types diagnose. optional captures are covered below; yielding value blocks, compound updates and bitwise operators remain open before hash-map acceptance.
+  - [x] optional conditional-expression checkpoint: `if value |payload| then_value else else_value` reuses canonical presence matches through interpreter/native execution. single-evaluation guards and lazy branches preserve exact immutable by-value captures, nested optional presence, aggregate isolation and runtime pointer/callback/slice/zero-sized payloads. contextual optional/fallible results, constant-input procedures, generated types/defaults and explicit compile-time subject selection retain checked execution and owned payload snapshots. nonoptional guards, capture scope/shadowing, malformed captures, missing `else`, incompatible branches and compile-time overflow retain diagnostics. yielding value blocks and broader constant materialization remain open.
   - [ ] remaining gate: general type-valued compile-time execution, broader constant materialization (including untagged unions and storage-bearing values), plus full existing-library acceptance for hash maps, broader `meta` operations and `io.print`. required expression-valued control flow, compound updates, formatting parsing and broader imported C-binding support may interleave with later gates.
-- [ ] remaining source constructs: optional-capture conditional expressions, yielding value blocks and `yield`, compound updates, bitwise operators and multiline strings. boolean conditional expressions are covered above. examples: `source/parser/parse.hon`, `source/llvm/runtime.hon`.
+- [ ] remaining source constructs: yielding value blocks and `yield`, compound updates, bitwise operators and multiline strings. boolean and optional-capture conditional expressions are covered above. examples: `source/parser/parse.hon`, `source/llvm/runtime.hon`.
 - [ ] standard-library milestone: compile/run a multi-package program exercising existing allocation and IO, including error cleanup; no replacement miniature standard library.
 - [ ] native driver integration: required C ABI declarations, `process.Init` startup arguments/IO, actual CLI exit statuses, file loading, temporary files and spawning Clang. Honey-generated programs currently accept only parameterless `main` and print its result; Bro's bootstrap startup support is not Honey backend support.
 - [ ] self-hosting proof: bootstrap-built Honey builds the production compiler (excluding test-only imports); that executable rebuilds the compiler; the rebuilt compiler passes representative interpreter/native examples and CLI/error scenarios without Bro at runtime.