- createRequire(import.meta.url) (or __filename / import.meta.filename) in a const binding is compile-time plumbing that emits nothing; each require call through it resolves per site against the binding's own file, and the inline createRequire(import.meta.url)("spec") spelling erases identically
- The erasure per target: a builtin spec makes the binding a namespace import in const clothing (namespace, destructured, and inline-member spellings all key the existing module tables, with the fallback-typed 'as typeof import(...)' cast idiom stripped); a relative .json document validates at compile time and lowers to json.parse over its baked text (JSON.parse's checked-dynamic unknown stance — exactly Node's value); a bare name nothing installed resolves compiles to Node's catchable MODULE_NOT_FOUND throw (the optional-dependency try/require pattern); an installed npm package embeds under --dynamic through the island's NEW require-condition entry (NpmGraphBuilder.addRequire — a dual package answers its CJS arm, exactly Node's createRequire) and reports the requires-dynamic diagnostic in a static build
- Dynamic specifiers, '#' project imports, relative non-.json targets, --npm-static opt-ins, and non-this-file bases all fence by name; the island-handle rescue skips the plumbing decls so --dynamic builds erase them too
- module.builtinModules bakes as Node v24's exact list (a fresh string[] per read, pinned to the compat target so emitted programs stay host-independent); isBuiltin and syncBuiltinESMExports fence per site with pointed hints, and the createRequire hint, its diagnostics snapshot, the surface manifest, and the npm-static offender wording follow
- Corpus 2606 pins json/builtin/builtinModules/MODULE_NOT_FOUND differentially on both backends and under ASan; the npm create-require fixture case pins cjszoo's module.exports, dual's require-condition CJS arm, and the missing-package rejection against Node
- redeclaring an inherited field WITH an initializer lowers as the [[Define]]-equivalent assignment into the base slot at the subclass's field-init position (builtin Error prefix included — prettier's errors.js `name = "ConfigError"`); bare and type-changing redeclares keep sharpened fences (corpus 2428, diagnostics inheritance re-record)
- object destructuring of CLASS instances desugars to one member read per element, left to right: fields read slots, accessors call getters through the fieldGetExpr dispatch, renames/parameter patterns/defaults included (corpus 2429 — prettier's AstPath { previous, next })
- an object literal missing an 'unknown' field completes with the DOM undefined (the absent-property read's answer), at literal completion and in the record width relation (corpus 2430 — prettier's getFileInfo(file, {}))
- node:module joins the supported builtins prefix-only as an admit-then-fence surface: createRequire keeps a per-member fence that defers to a catchable runtime error in JS sources (diagnostics create-require pins the hint naming the pattern)
Chris Tate