feat: execute Bro-compatible integer range loops

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# Honey
Honey is currently bootstrapped with the Bro compiler. the expected development workspace places the Bro project at [`../brolang`](../brolang); consult that project for compiler behavior and documentation.
Bro and Honey implement the same language; Bro is the prototype compiler used to bootstrap the self-hosted Honey compiler. the features below describe Honey's currently implemented subset. the expected development workspace places Bro at [`../brolang`](../brolang); consult that project for the language grammar and documentation.
style: see the [language guidelines](docs/style.md).
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`while` repeats a block or single statement while its `bool` condition holds, re-evaluating the condition on every iteration. guards follow the same braced/braceless convention as `if`. loop bodies introduce child scopes; their locals, including locals in nested conditional arms, begin uninitialized on each scope entry.
`break` exits the nearest enclosing `while`; `continue` restarts its entire condition, including short-circuit expressions and calls. both are operand-free statements permitted within loop bodies and nested conditional arms; labels and values are unsupported. controls outside loops produce keyword-spanned diagnostics, including in untaken or unreachable code, and trap only if reached. code after a transfer is still resolved and type-checked but does not execute on that path. body locals are reset on re-entry after `continue`; loop transfers do not guarantee a function return. both controls lower to existing IR jumps, without new interpreter instructions or loop frames. [programs/loop_control.hon](programs/loop_control.hon) skips an iteration and exits early; `./build/honey run programs/loop_control.hon` prints `12`.
`for 0..10 |i| { ... }` iterates an ascending, upper-exclusive integer range; `..=` includes the upper bound. a capture is required: `|i|` binds an immutable `int` in the body scope, while `|_|` discards it. bounds resolve in the enclosing scope and are evaluated left-to-right once, so changing a bound variable in the body does not change the range. reversed ranges are empty; equal bounds produce zero iterations with `..` and one with `..=`. inclusive ranges terminate safely at the maximum integer.
range bounds that are compound or unary expressions require their own parentheses, such as `(-2)..(limit + 1)`. a braceless body also requires parentheses around the entire iterable: `for (0..10) |i| total = total + i`. current execution supports direct integer ranges only; first-class range values, collection iteration, pointer captures and index captures remain unimplemented. [programs/range_loop.hon](programs/range_loop.hon) skips `5` while summing `0..10`; `./build/honey run programs/range_loop.hon` prints `40`.
`break` exits the nearest enclosing `for` or `while`; `continue` restarts a `while` condition or advances a `for` range through its guarded update. both are operand-free statements permitted within loop bodies and nested conditional arms; labels and values are unsupported. controls outside loops produce keyword-spanned diagnostics, including in untaken or unreachable code, and trap only if reached. code after a transfer is still resolved and type-checked but does not execute on that path. body locals are reset on re-entry after `continue`; loop transfers do not guarantee a function return. both controls lower to existing IR jumps, without new interpreter instructions or loop frames. [programs/loop_control.hon](programs/loop_control.hon) skips an iteration and exits early; `./build/honey run programs/loop_control.hon` prints `12`.
name resolution (`@source/sema`) runs after parsing. it predeclares package names and each block's direct locals, allowing forward references and mutually recursive functions. parameters and top-level function-body locals share a scope; each conditional arm and loop body introduces a child scope whose names do not escape it. signatures resolve names in the enclosing package scope. shadowing is forbidden, including reuse of builtin type names (`int`, `float`, `bool`, `string`, `void`); sibling scopes may independently reuse names.
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`interpreter.run` consumes only IR and returns a value or a diagnostic trap. string values carry a module-local `ir.StringId`, not a slice; resolve bytes with `ir.string_bytes(&module, id)` before releasing the module. decoded bytes and their full backing allocations remain module-owned, without copying strings during calls or returns. heap-backed invocation frames track their current block and resume it after calls or global initialization; loop iterations reuse the invocation's storage without allocating new frames. parameters are initialized on entry and local declarations execute in statement order. premature local reads and assignments trap; assignment evaluates its right-hand side before checking the destination's initialization. globals initialize lazily on their first read, cache their result for that run, and trap on initialization cycles. integers use signed 64-bit storage with checked arithmetic; floats use 64-bit IEEE arithmetic and comparisons, including NaN behavior. numeric literal overflow and float underflow to zero are diagnosed; representable subnormals are accepted. strings support `\\`, `\"`, `\n`, `\r`, `\t`, `\0` and `\xNN` escapes.
recoverable source errors do not stop execution of unaffected code. unused invalid functions, globals and nested bodies retain diagnostic traps; reaching invalid code reports its original diagnostic identity. missing-return traps affect only paths that fall through, not paths that already return or trap. diagnostics include the filename, line and byte column. exit status is `0` for clean execution, `1` for source diagnostics or a runtime trap, and `2` for usage or infrastructure failure. native code generation, `for` and compound assignment remain unimplemented.
recoverable source errors do not stop execution of unaffected code. unused invalid functions, globals and nested bodies retain diagnostic traps; reaching invalid code reports its original diagnostic identity. missing-return traps affect only paths that fall through, not paths that already return or trap. diagnostics include the filename, line and byte column. exit status is `0` for clean execution, `1` for source diagnostics or a runtime trap, and `2` for usage or infrastructure failure. native code generation and compound assignment remain unimplemented.