A method declaring `ctx?: Ctx` completes to `(id, Ctx | undefined) => string`;
a slot that requires the narrower `(id, ToolCtx) => string` was refused with
SC1090 at the value's birth, because the gate only compared the two
signatures for equality. The slot coercion (funcCoerceAdapter) already
converts every parameter through coercibleValue, the record width conversion
(which also selects a width-liftable arm of a union destination — the
`ToolCtx` into `Ctx | undefined` shape), the partial checked-dynamic
extraction, and the union arm preservation. `funcSlotAdaptable` now asks the
same question through `cleanParamPair`, so the gate admits exactly the pairs
the adapter converts without a trap-only path, and both call sites (the
object-literal method slot and the mapped value target) use it.
The gate also learns the two slot shapes it could not name: an object
literal contextualized by an INDEX SIGNATURE (`Record<string, Handler>`)
takes its member slot from the index signature's value type, and a literal
with no contextual type takes the member's own completed type — the type
every later read of the member spells.
Nested function DECLARATIONS are no longer judged at birth: lowering a
declaration builds the body, not a value, and each value use re-checks the
completed signature against that use's own target. An overloaded nested
declaration with an optional parameter, returned as a value (`return write`
into a one-parameter `Writer`), is now accepted instead of refused.
Corpus: tests/corpus/optional-param-function-values.ts (a required slot over
an optional parameter, an index-signature member with an extra trailing
optional parameter, an annotated value with a defaulted parameter, the nested
overloaded declaration returned as a value, direct-call controls, and a
union-typed slot). Node-identical stdout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
