* Introduce the GradientRamp exchange struct as the serialized TaggedValue::Gradient payload
* Unify FillChoice and FillChoiceUI into one enum generic over color format, carrying GradientRamp stops
* Rename the TaggedValue::Gradient variant to GradientRamp to match its payload
* Move the Color variant into the tagged_value macro list since its stored and wire forms match
* Rework Gradient into a newtype of List<Color> with optional position and midpoint attributes
* Fix Vello stopless-gradient fallback coverage, empty legacy gradient tables, the node docs gradient swatch, NaN position elision, and wired setter input overwrites
* Remove the dead InputAccessor traits and the uncallable test helper built on them
* Replace raw node input indices with macro-generated parameter symbols across the editor
* Audit dynamic input index usage, converting to parameter symbols and named input position constants
* Abstract the remaining input index plumbing behind ParameterRef APIs and accessors
* Build SetInputValue messages as struct literals to keep message enums impl-free
* Delete the typed parameter markers in favor of explicit-output test introspection
* Wire the interpolation control path input per chain node type
* Return no input when a parameter symbol is read against the wrong node's parameter view
An absent read of a name the census declares now serves that name's own
default rather than its value type's, which is the rule for a declared
name. The census stages it exactly as it fills any absent field, as the
declared default's bytes, so the read reuses the census's own mechanism
instead of a second one; the compiler takes them when the name folds and
`set_layout` installs them beside the offset.
A name the census does not declare keeps the value type's default, which
is that case's own rule. One name carries one value type, checked when
the name folds, so the row's value type and width agree with the read's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fold already holds the name and the read input's finished layout, so
the offset falls out there rather than at construction: `RecordLayout`
carries the resolved numbers and `set_layout` copies them into the read
slots. Constructors are untouched, and census-marker reads keep their
current installation.
A read meets the value type the name was written at, so a disagreement
between a read here and a write upstream is the same graph error as two
writes disagreeing; the one-name-one-type check now spans reads and
writes together. An absent attribute stays absent and the read serves
the forced default rather than reporting it.
`read_attribute` is the catalog's get half, typed and never `Option` at
the kernel boundary, with the name declared exactly as the write side
declares it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`compute_layouts` resolves every name-from-input write against the text
its name input carries, so a folded meta is indistinguishable from a
marker node's and the layout holds a `&'static str` from there on. That
leaves nowhere for a name to be computed, which is the whole of the
rule: a name input that is not a constant is refused right here, per
node, with the path the editor pins its diagnostic to.
One name carries one value type, checked across the census and the
names a node folds together, so no graph can declare one field at two
widths. `compute_layouts` returns those refusals rather than panicking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
