arael 0.5.2

Nonlinear optimization framework with compile-time symbolic differentiation
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# TODO

- **arael-sketch conflict messages**: Enhance `check_constraint_conflict` so the "already parallel / perpendicular / equal / ..." error messages include the offending existing constraint's name (e.g. "conflict with C5: parallel L0 L1"). The plan (`yes-did-you-check-memoized-wren.md`) called this a single-site change, but the conflict messages are spread across many arms in `arael-sketch/src/conflicts.rs` and the current `pair_exists` helper does not expose the matching index. Adding a sibling helper that returns both the boolean and the index (or refactoring `pair_exists` to return `Option<usize>`) would let every arm include the nid. Skipped for now to keep the initial naming feature surface-area small.
- **Sketch editor**: Tag constraints owned by dimensions so they can be deleted logically instead of matching by approximate value comparison. Currently `RemoveDimension` in `arael-sketch/examples/editor.rs` searches for the underlying constraint (e.g. `distance_pl`) by floating-point distance match, which is fragile (e.g. signed vs unsigned mismatch for `PointLineDistance` — the constraint stores -5.0 but the dimension stores 5.0).
- **Sketch editor**: Add `MoveDimension` action to cleanly reposition dimension annotations (offset + text_along). Currently dimension dragging uses the `Drag` action which snapshots the entire sketch state. Alternatively, extend `AddDimension` to accept optional offset/text_along so the position can be specified at creation time.
- derived dimensions -- DONE
- hiding of intermediary PcN points -- DONE
- dragging hide cost != 0
- investigate arc negative radiuses -- DONE (ccw flag + sweep_sign + negative radius rejection)
- implement elliptic arcs
- rect tools etc
- circle creaing tools etc
- mirror tool
- fillet tool
- offset tool
- trim tool
- split tool
- scale tool
- mirror tool
- various circle tools
- text placement
- polygon tool
- **Duplicate constraint check**: `symmetry_pp` (point symmetry) skips duplicate detection because `resolve_as_point` creates helper points before we can check — need to compare semantic endpoints, not Ref<Point> values
- **Redundancy warning**: DONE -- constraints now checked for DOF reduction, rejected if redundant. Use `force` to override.
- Way to get the Jacobian for the system with constraints identifiable for more efficient SVD analysis of DOF in arael-sketch -- DONE (`#[arael(root, jacobian)]` + `#[arael(constraint_index)]`)
- **Document Jacobian feature**: DONE -- documented in lib.rs features, macro docs, README.
- **Degenerate tangent at shared endpoint**: DONE -- TangentLA uses dot-product formulation when tangent point is a shared endpoint (detected via coincident scan). The perpendicular-distance formulation has zero Jacobian at shared endpoints; the dot-product does not.
- **DOF computation ownership in Sketch**: Move async DOF lifecycle into Sketch itself. Mutations kick off async computation internally. `sketch.dof()` blocks and waits if result not ready. GUI reads `sketch.cached_dof` for non-blocking display. Eliminates the external async plumbing (dof_input/dof_output/dof_display, bincode serialize/deserialize copy, poll_dof).
- **arael-sym**: Implement `Mul<E> for f64`, `Mul<E> for i64`, etc. so `2.0 * expr` works (currently only `expr * 2.0` compiles). Same for Add, Sub, Div. -- DONE
- **arael-sketch**: when rotating arcs the arc radius dimension does not rotate -- DONE
- **arael-sketch**: implement sweep A0 driven/distance L0 driven -- make to current value and driven -- DONE
- **arael-sketch**: arc angles when rotating arc can drift? so I see things like arc sweep 480 degrees -- DONE
- **arael-sketch**: just help: add"Type help full for ..". Add Help button. Open command, expand half sketch, issue help full. -- DONE
- **arael-sketch**: dragging should keep hilight, not hilight others -- DONE
- **arael-sketch**: sometimes we somehow get stuck pasting into cmd input -- ??? browser/wasm issue?
- **arael-sketch**: make language more real so that you can do vector algebra
- **arael-sketch**: add keywords into language? stop assigning to anything?
- **arael-sketch**: dimension: distance between concentric circles
- **arael-macros**: support general func() syntax -- right now we have to describe all of them which is annoying..
- **arael**: support single struct model+root. right now it does not function. -- DONE (SelfBlock<Self> on root + direct-composed sub-model fields now route through EntityLocation::RootSelf / EntityLocation::DirectField in arael-macros)
- **arael**: support global optimization parameters with a triplet block, so a global param can be mixed with hessianblock, or efficiently omitted
- **arael-sym**: parse_with_bag -- bag with functions and substitutions so func() gets current active function -- DONE
- **arael-sym**: cli calculator demo app, better than bc, define functions, etc. -- DONE
- **arael**: docs: document constraint has name= property
- **arael**: extend jacobi demo with constraint labels
- **arael-sketch**: clean up points obscuring everything, make line endpoint when creating explicit and clean -- cross on line snap, cross+box on point snap
- **arael-sketch**: auto-perpendicular constraint
- **arael-sketch**: switch to hdimension/vdimension at creation when moving mouse far -- switching commands during tool usage
- **arael-sketch**: hdimension/vdimension at creation when moving mouse far
- **arael-sketch**: toggle tags like driven, quiet, construction during line creation
- **arael-sketch**: robot.cmd scale to 0.1 takes us to "interesting" view
- **arael-macros**: tighten the constraint attribute parser to reject the N-way positional multi-block form `constraint(hb_a, hb_b, hb_c, {body})`. The parser currently accepts it as a side effect of supporting `constraint(hb_pose, root.hbt, {body})` (self-primary + root-owned TripletBlock). N ≥ 2 regular multi-block should always be written with brackets -- `constraint([a, b, c], {body})` -- and the only positional form we genuinely need is the specific 2-item `(<local_self_block>, root.<triplet>)` case. Two parsers for the same thing is a surprise waiting to bite users.
- **arael-sketch**: investigate chain misbehavior
- **arael-sketch**: when selecting a line/point/arc/etc hilight/hover all the constraints associated with it