usage_argv/

lib.rs

//! A zero-allocation argv parser for [usage](https://usage.jdx.dev) specs.
//!
//! This crate implements the binding rules of [the argv grammar]: which token
//! becomes which flag or argument, when a word selects a subcommand, and what
//! is an error. It does so without building a command tree, without allocating,
//! and in one pass.
//!
//! It is the runtime half of a compiled parser. The tables it reads are meant to
//! be emitted by a derive macro as `static` data, so that starting a parse costs
//! nothing at all: there is no construction step to pay for, only the walk over
//! `argv`.
//!
//! # Shape of the API
//!
//! Parsing yields [`Event`]s rather than a map. A map would have to allocate,
//! and would then have to be read back out again — whereas generated code can
//! assign an event straight into a struct field. This is the same reason serde
//! deserializes into your type instead of into a `Value`.
//!
//! ```
//! use usage_argv::{Arg, Command, Event, Flag, Parser};
//!
//! static FORCE: Flag = Flag { key: 0, longs: &["force"], shorts: b"f", ..Flag::BOOL };
//! static FILE: Arg = Arg { key: 1, ..Arg::REQUIRED };
//! static ROOT: Command = Command {
//!     name: "ex",
//!     flags: &[&FORCE],
//!     args: &[&FILE],
//!     ..Command::EMPTY
//! };
//!
//! let argv = ["--force", "a.txt"].map(std::ffi::OsStr::new);
//! let mut parser = Parser::new(&ROOT, &argv);
//!
//! let mut force = false;
//! let mut file = None;
//! while let Some(event) = parser.next_event() {
//!     match event.expect("valid command line") {
//!         Event::Flag { flag, .. } if flag.key == 0 => force = true,
//!         Event::Arg { value, .. } => file = Some(value),
//!         _ => {}
//!     }
//! }
//! assert!(force);
//! assert_eq!(file, Some(&b"a.txt"[..]));
//! ```
//!
//! # Values are bytes
//!
//! An [`Event`] carries `&[u8]`, borrowed from `argv`. Converting to `&str` is
//! the caller's step ([`as_str`]), and it is the right place for the only
//! failure a value can have: a command line that is not valid UTF-8 still
//! *parses* — flags match, subcommands route — and only the values that are
//! actually looked at can fail to convert.
//!
//! Slicing an `OsStr` into `&str` pieces safely is not possible without
//! allocating or `unsafe`. Bytes are what is left, and they turn out to be the
//! honest interface anyway.
//!
//! The reverse conversion is [`os_string_from_bytes`], which lets a `PathBuf`
//! field hold a filename that is not UTF-8 rather than a mangled copy of one. On
//! Unix that is lossless and safe; on Windows, where WTF-8 makes it partial, a
//! value that will not convert is reported. Either way this crate contains no
//! `unsafe`, which a conversion that guessed would have cost.
//!
//! # What this crate does not do
//!
//! Only binding. Required-ness, `choices`, `env` fallback, defaults, `var_min`
//! and `var_max` are all decided *after* the last token is read, and they need to
//! know a value's type, so they belong to the layer that owns the target struct.
//! Keeping them out is what makes this loop small.
//!
//! # Features
//!
//! - `spec` — a parallel tree of cold metadata (help text, choices, defaults,
//!   effects) and a writer that emits it as a usage spec. Off by default: a
//!   successful parse never reads any of it, so a CLI that only wants a parser
//!   should not compile it.
//! - `complete` — answering a partial command line ([`complete`]), the shell
//!   scripts that ask ([`script`]), and putting one of those scripts where its
//!   shell will look for it ([`install`]). Installing ships with the scripts
//!   rather than behind a gate of its own: a script a CLI still has to tell its
//!   users to redirect by hand is the unfinished half of shipping one.
//!
//! [the argv grammar]: https://usage.jdx.dev/spec/argv

// One module opts out: `tty`, which asks the kernel how wide the terminal is. `forbid` would
// make that opt-out impossible, and the alternative to the opt-out is a dependency — this
// crate has none, and a CLI that wraps its help at 80 columns on a wide terminal is worse
// than two dozen lines of reviewed FFI. Everything else in the crate is still refused.
#![deny(unsafe_code)]

/// Terminate at the compiled CLI entry-point boundary.
///
/// Kept in the runtime rather than expanded into an adopter crate so a project that
/// forbids direct `std::process::exit` calls does not attribute the derive's process
/// boundary to application code. `Cli::parse_from*` continues to return errors.
#[doc(hidden)]
#[allow(clippy::disallowed_methods)]
pub fn __usage_process_exit(status: i32) -> ! {
    std::process::exit(status)
}

/// Print a generated entry point's output to stdout, ignoring a failed write.
///
/// `print!` panics when the write fails, and the usual failure is a reader that has gone
/// away: `cli --help | head -1`, a pager quit early, or a completion the shell cancelled while
/// typing. Every caller is about to leave (or has finished a successful parse), so there is
/// nobody left to tell, and a panic only turns that into a crash — an abort with a core dump
/// in a `panic = "abort"` build. The exit status stays the one the caller chose.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_print(output: std::fmt::Arguments<'_>) {
    use std::io::Write;
    let mut stdout = std::io::stdout().lock();
    let _ = stdout.write_fmt(output).and_then(|()| stdout.flush());
}

/// The process's arguments, argv[0] included.
///
/// Out of line so each derived entry point calls it rather than carrying its own copy of
/// the collecting loop.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_process_args() -> Vec<OsString> {
    let args = std::env::args_os();
    let mut all = Vec::with_capacity(args.len());
    for arg in args {
        all.push(arg);
    }
    all
}

/// Borrow every word of `words`, for a parse that takes `&[&OsStr]`.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_borrow_words(words: &[OsString]) -> Vec<&OsStr> {
    let mut refs = Vec::with_capacity(words.len());
    for word in words {
        refs.push(word.as_os_str());
    }
    refs
}

/// Own every word of `words`, behind a `prefix` of whitespace-separated words, the shape a
/// view or multicall rewrite hands the parser.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_own_words(prefix: &str, words: &[&OsStr]) -> Vec<OsString> {
    let mut owned = Vec::with_capacity(words.len());
    for word in prefix.split_ascii_whitespace() {
        owned.push(OsString::from(word));
    }
    for word in words {
        owned.push((*word).to_os_string());
    }
    owned
}

/// Build a command's future on the heap, for a generated async dispatch to await.
///
/// The future is created inside this function, not by the caller, and that is the point:
/// without optimizations every temporary in an `async fn` gets its own stack slot, held for
/// as long as the future runs, so a dispatch that wrote `run_async(inner).await` in each arm
/// kept a slot the size of every command's future on the stack while running any one of them.
/// Created here, the future only passes through this function's frame, and the dispatch keeps
/// a `Box` per arm instead. `Send` still follows the command's future, since a box of it is
/// `Send` exactly when it is.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_box_future<F, Fut>(make: F) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<Fut>>
where
    F: FnOnce() -> Fut,
    Fut: std::future::Future,
{
    Box::pin(make())
}

/// [`__usage_print`] for stderr: help and failures that go there, and deprecation warnings.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_eprint(output: std::fmt::Arguments<'_>) {
    use std::io::Write;
    let _ = std::io::stderr().lock().write_fmt(output);
}

use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};

/// A value's shell-native completion class for `#[usage(value_hint = ...)]`.
///
/// This lives in the runtime crate so a declaration never needs clap merely to describe what
/// kind of path a shell should offer. It is metadata only and adds no work to a successful
/// parse.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub enum ValueHint {
    /// Let the shell use its normal fallback behavior.
    Unknown,
    /// No structured hint applies; suppress the shell's path fallback.
    Other,
    /// A path to a file.
    FilePath,
    /// A path to either a file or a directory.
    AnyPath,
    /// A path to a directory.
    DirPath,
    /// A path to an executable file.
    ExecutablePath,
    /// A command name, resolved through the shell's command table and `PATH`.
    CommandName,
    /// One string containing a command and any arguments.
    CommandString,
    /// A trailing argv vector: complete the first value as a command, then its arguments.
    CommandWithArguments,
    /// A local operating-system user name.
    Username,
    /// A host name known to the shell or operating system.
    Hostname,
    /// A web address. This suppresses path fallback but offers no finite candidate set.
    Url,
    /// An email address. This suppresses path fallback but offers no finite candidate set.
    EmailAddress,
}

#[cfg(feature = "complete")]
pub mod complete;
#[cfg(feature = "diagnostics")]
pub mod diagnostic;
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
pub mod embedded;
#[cfg(feature = "complete")]
pub mod install;
#[cfg(feature = "complete")]
pub mod script;

/// Checks that the `complete` feature is on, with an explanation when it is not.
///
/// `#[usage(completion)]` generates code that reaches into [`complete`], which is behind a
/// feature the *depending* crate enables — a derive cannot turn on a feature of another crate.
/// Without this, the failure was `unresolved module complete`, which says nothing about the
/// attribute that caused it.
#[cfg(feature = "complete")]
#[macro_export]
macro_rules! __usage_needs_complete_feature {
    () => {};
}

/// See [`__usage_needs_complete_feature`].
#[cfg(not(feature = "complete"))]
#[macro_export]
macro_rules! __usage_needs_complete_feature {
    () => {
        ::core::compile_error!(
            "`#[usage(completion)]` needs usage-argv's `complete` feature. Add it where \
             usage-argv is depended on: usage-argv = { version = \"…\", features = \
             [\"spec\", \"complete\"] }"
        );
    };
}
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
pub mod help;
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
mod order;
mod slice;
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
mod text;
// Behind no feature: two traits and no code, so there is nothing here for a binary that
// does not dispatch to pay for, and a hand-written CLI on the bare runtime can use them.
pub mod run;
// Behind no feature either, and public: an application that lays out its own output beside a
// help page — a table, a progress line — should not have to work the width out a second way
// and disagree with the page it sits next to.
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
pub mod spec;
pub mod tty;
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
pub use spec::{parse_args_from, parse_args_from_argv};
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
pub mod warn;

pub use run::{Run, RunAsync, RunAsyncWith, RunWith};

/// How deep a command tree this parser will descend.
///
/// The ancestor chain is kept in a fixed-size array so that a parse allocates
/// nothing; this is that array's size. mise, the largest usage CLI, is four
/// levels deep.
pub const MAX_DEPTH: usize = 16;

/// A command: its flags, its positional arguments, and its subcommands.
///
/// Every field is a borrowed slice so that a derive can emit the whole tree as
/// `static` data. Use `..Command::EMPTY` to fill in the parts you do not need.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Command<'a> {
    /// The canonical name, used to select this command.
    pub name: &'a str,
    /// Alternative names that also select it.
    pub aliases: &'a [&'a str],
    pub flags: &'a [&'a Flag<'a>],
    /// Positional arguments, in the order they are filled.
    pub args: &'a [&'a Arg<'a>],
    /// A repeatable group of scoped flags and positional arguments, if this command has one.
    ///
    /// Behind a reference because hardly any command has one: held inline, the clause's five
    /// slices were two thirds of every command's table whether it declared one or not.
    pub clause: ::core::option::Option<&'a Clause<'a>>,
    pub subcommands: &'a [&'a Command<'a>],
    /// Where a word goes when it names no subcommand of this one.
    ///
    /// The spec's `default_subcommand`. `mise build` means `mise run build`: the word names
    /// no command, so the parser descends into `run` and lets *`run`* have it — even where
    /// this command declares an argument of its own, which is what makes the property worth
    /// having rather than a synonym for a positional.
    ///
    /// Applied at most once per parse, so a CLI cannot loop through it, and only where a
    /// subcommand could still be selected.
    ///
    /// Resolve it with [`find_subcommand`], which turns a name that no subcommand answers to
    /// into a compile error.
    pub default_subcommand: ::core::option::Option<&'a Command<'a>>,
    /// Look ahead past parent/default flags before implicitly selecting the default.
    /// A sibling name before any default-only flag stays on the parent; after one,
    /// later words are the default command's args.
    pub default_subcommand_flags: bool,
    /// Select the default subcommand for an otherwise empty successful invocation.
    pub default_subcommand_on_empty: bool,
    /// Whether an unmatched word is forwarded as an external command plus the rest of argv.
    ///
    /// clap's `allow_external_subcommands`. Known subcommands still win; a
    /// [`default_subcommand`](Self::default_subcommand) still catches first. Once the
    /// unmatched word is taken, remaining tokens — including `--help` — are not parsed
    /// as this command's flags.
    pub external_subcommand: bool,
    /// Show this command's help when no argv token follows its name.
    ///
    /// This is clap's `arg_required_else_help`. It deliberately observes argv rather than
    /// bound values: an environment variable or default may fill a field, but neither means
    /// the user supplied an argument to this invocation.
    pub arg_required_else_help: bool,
    /// Selecting a subcommand suppresses this command's required arguments.
    pub subcommand_negates_reqs: bool,
    /// Once this command binds a flag or positional, selecting one of its
    /// subcommands is an error.
    pub args_conflicts_with_subcommands: bool,
    /// Let a known subcommand interrupt a variadic argument that would otherwise consume it.
    pub subcommand_precedence_over_arg: bool,
    /// Let a later required positional take a word while an earlier optional positional
    /// remains empty.
    pub allow_missing_positional: bool,
    /// Disable delimiter splitting for positional values after `--` or on an
    /// automatic trailing argument. Inherited by subcommands.
    pub dont_delimit_trailing_values: bool,
    /// What an unrecognized flag-like token means here, or `None` to keep whatever the
    /// enclosing command said. See [`UnknownFlags`].
    ///
    /// Inherited rather than resolved per command, which is what usage-lib does — its
    /// `effective_unknown_flags` walks outward from the command that ran and falls back to
    /// the spec's. Resolving it in the tables instead was possible only for a builder that
    /// can see the whole tree: a derive expands one struct at a time and cannot see its
    /// parent, so `#[usage(unknown_flags = "error")]` on the root reached the root alone and
    /// a subcommand had no way to say it at all.
    ///
    /// The parser carries the effective value down as it descends, so a command that states
    /// nothing costs nothing.
    pub unknown_flags: ::core::option::Option<UnknownFlags>,
    /// Whether this command answers to `--version` and `-V`.
    ///
    /// Set on the root, and only when the CLI declares a version: clap adds the flag exactly
    /// then, and a `--version` that answers with nothing is worse than one that is not there.
    /// A field rather than a rule about depth, so a CLI that wants it on a subcommand — clap's
    /// `propagate_version` — has somewhere to say so.
    pub version: bool,
    /// Do not synthesize `--help` and `-h` for this command.
    pub disable_help_flag: bool,
    /// Do not synthesize the `help` subcommand route for this command.
    pub disable_help_subcommand: bool,
    /// Do not synthesize `--version` and `-V` for this command.
    pub disable_version_flag: bool,
    /// Caller-assigned identifier, echoed back in [`Event::Command`].
    ///
    /// Wide enough for a derive to make these unique without coordination: two
    /// macro expansions cannot see each other, so the generated keys carry a hash
    /// of the type they came from in the high half and a per-type index in the low
    /// half. A parse dispatches on this, so a collision would bind the wrong field
    /// — [`Spec::to_kdl`](crate::spec::Spec::to_kdl) checks the tree for duplicates
    /// in debug builds.
    pub key: u64,
}

impl Command<'_> {
    /// A command with nothing declared, for use with struct update syntax.
    pub const EMPTY: Command<'static> = Command {
        name: "",
        aliases: &[],
        flags: &[],
        args: &[],
        clause: ::core::option::Option::None,
        subcommands: &[],
        default_subcommand: ::core::option::Option::None,
        default_subcommand_flags: false,
        default_subcommand_on_empty: false,
        external_subcommand: false,
        arg_required_else_help: false,
        subcommand_negates_reqs: false,
        args_conflicts_with_subcommands: false,
        subcommand_precedence_over_arg: false,
        allow_missing_positional: false,
        dont_delimit_trailing_values: false,
        unknown_flags: ::core::option::Option::None,
        version: false,
        disable_help_flag: false,
        disable_help_subcommand: false,
        disable_version_flag: false,
        key: 0,
    };
}

/// A repeatable group of scoped flags and positional arguments.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Clause<'a> {
    pub key: u64,
    pub name: &'a str,
    /// An explicit token that starts the next instance. When absent, consuming the
    /// clause's sole required positional completes the current instance.
    pub separator: ::core::option::Option<&'a [u8]>,
    pub flags: &'a [&'a Flag<'a>],
    pub args: &'a [&'a Arg<'a>],
}

/// Basename of argv[0] for a multicall CLI: last path component, with a trailing
/// `.exe` stripped so Windows and Unix agree.
pub fn multicall_basename(argv0: &str) -> &str {
    let name = argv0.rsplit(['/', '\\']).next().unwrap_or(argv0);
    match name.get(name.len().saturating_sub(4)..) {
        Some(ext) if ext.eq_ignore_ascii_case(".exe") => &name[..name.len() - 4],
        _ => name,
    }
}

/// The applet name to parse as the first word, when argv[0] is not the dispatcher.
///
/// `None` means a dispatcher invocation (`busybox ls`): skip argv[0] and parse the
/// rest. `Some` is a symlink invocation (`ls -l`): inject the basename.
pub fn multicall_applet<'a>(argv0: &'a str, name: &str, bin: Option<&str>) -> Option<&'a str> {
    let base = multicall_basename(argv0);
    if !name.is_empty() && base == multicall_basename(name) {
        return None;
    }
    if let Some(bin) = bin
        && !bin.is_empty()
        && base == multicall_basename(bin)
    {
        return None;
    }
    Some(base)
}

/// Resolved identity of a derive-generated binding type.
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
pub struct BindingType(pub fn() -> &'static str);

impl BindingType {
    pub fn name(self) -> &'static str {
        (self.0)()
    }
}

impl ::core::fmt::Debug for BindingType {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut ::core::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> ::core::fmt::Result {
        f.debug_tuple("BindingType").field(&self.name()).finish()
    }
}

impl PartialEq for BindingType {
    fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
        self.name() == other.name()
    }
}

impl Eq for BindingType {}

/// A flag, addressed by any of its long or short forms.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Flag<'a> {
    /// Caller-assigned identifier, echoed back in [`Event::Flag`]. This is how
    /// generated code knows which field to assign without any string comparison.
    /// See [`Command::key`] on why it is this wide.
    pub key: u64,
    /// Compatibility key for mirroring a redeclared child global into an ancestor field.
    ///
    /// Zero means no typed binding contract is declared. Derive-generated tables hash the
    /// binding shape and portable metadata so only equivalent bindings receive the same event.
    pub binding_key: u64,
    /// Resolved Rust value type for a derive-generated binding.
    ///
    /// This is separate from [`Self::binding_key`] because token spellings are not type
    /// identities: an imported alias and a fully qualified path can name the same type.
    pub binding_type: Option<BindingType>,
    /// Unused by binding, kept so a table entry can carry its own name for
    /// diagnostics.
    pub name: &'a str,
    /// Long forms, written without the leading `--`.
    pub longs: &'a [&'a str],
    /// Short forms, as single bytes.
    ///
    /// **Should be ASCII.** A cluster like `-xyz` is walked one byte at a time, so a
    /// non-ASCII short can never be matched, and the remainder after a value-taking one —
    /// which becomes its value — would begin in the middle of a character.
    /// `#[derive(Cli)]` rejects a non-ASCII `short`; a table written by hand should keep to
    /// it. Nothing is unsound if it does not: the value would simply be cut in a place that
    /// makes no sense, and on Windows would then fail to convert.
    pub shorts: &'a [u8],
    /// A long form that sets the flag to false, written without the `--`.
    pub negate: Option<&'a str>,
    /// Whether the flag takes a value.
    pub takes_value: bool,
    /// Whether one occurrence of this flag keeps taking values, until a flag-like
    /// token or the end of the command line.
    ///
    /// This is the spec's variadic flag *argument* (`--include <pattern>...`). It
    /// is not the spec's flag-level `var=#true`, which means the flag may be
    /// repeated and takes one value each time — repetition needs nothing from the
    /// parser, since it already reports every occurrence separately. Conflating
    /// the two makes a merely repeatable flag greedy enough to eat a positional.
    pub variadic: bool,
    /// How many values one variadic occurrence may take, after which the next word
    /// belongs to whatever comes next.
    ///
    /// Only for [`variadic`](Self::variadic). A merely repeatable flag — the spec's
    /// `var=#true` — is bounded on how many times it was *given*, which no single token
    /// can decide, so that bound stays with the metadata and is checked after the parse.
    pub var_max: ::core::option::Option<u32>,
    /// The byte that makes one word several values, if the flag declares one.
    ///
    /// Here rather than with the metadata for the same reason [`var_max`](Self::var_max)
    /// is: it decides *where* a word lands. A bound counts values, and a delimiter is what
    /// makes a word stop being one of them — `--include a,b,c` is three, so a `var_max` of
    /// two is already past its bound on the single word it was entitled to take. Binding
    /// cannot count without it.
    pub delimiter: ::core::option::Option<u8>,
    /// Whether a detached value may itself look like a flag.
    ///
    /// The default is to refuse: `--jobs --force` is far more likely a forgotten
    /// value than a jobs of `"--force"`. Declared, the next token is taken
    /// whatever it looks like — including `--` — which is clap's
    /// `allow_hyphen_values` and the spec's property of the same name. A variadic
    /// occurrence still stops collecting at a later flag-like token, so a second
    /// occurrence of the flag is not eaten as a value.
    pub allow_hyphen_values: bool,
    /// Whether a detached value may be a negative number while other flag-like
    /// tokens still stop collection or report as flags.
    pub allow_negative_numbers: bool,
    /// A token that ends one variadic occurrence without becoming a value.
    pub value_terminator: ::core::option::Option<&'a [u8]>,
    /// Whether the value must be attached with `=`.
    ///
    /// `--flag=value` is accepted and `--flag value` is not, which is clap's
    /// `require_equals` and the spec's property of the same name. A short's
    /// attached form (`-i9229`, `-i=9229`) still binds: only the following word
    /// is refused.
    pub require_equals: bool,
    /// Whether this value-taking flag may be present without a value.
    ///
    /// A missing value emits the flag event with `value: None`; bindings such as
    /// `Option<Option<T>>` can therefore distinguish an absent flag from a bare
    /// flag and from a flag with an explicit value.
    pub value_optional: bool,
    /// Whether a boolean long flag accepts an attached `true` or `false` value.
    ///
    /// This does not make the flag value-taking in the ordinary sense: a detached
    /// word is never consumed, and help keeps rendering a switch. Only
    /// `--flag=true` and `--flag=false` opt into an explicit boolean value.
    pub bool_value: bool,
    /// Value used when the flag is present but no value is given.
    ///
    /// clap's `default_missing_value` and the spec's `default_missing`. `--color`
    /// binds this, `--color=never` binds `never`, and an absent flag is not bound.
    /// Combined with [`Self::require_equals`], a following word is still refused.
    pub default_missing: ::core::option::Option<&'a [u8]>,
    /// Whether the flag is recognized by every command beneath the one that
    /// declares it.
    pub global: bool,
    /// Whether this declared flag binds a field or requests a built-in response.
    pub action: ArgAction,
}

impl Flag<'_> {
    /// A value-less flag, for use with struct update syntax.
    pub const BOOL: Flag<'static> = Flag {
        key: 0,
        binding_key: 0,
        binding_type: None,
        name: "",
        longs: &[],
        shorts: &[],
        negate: None,
        takes_value: false,
        variadic: false,
        var_max: ::core::option::Option::None,
        delimiter: ::core::option::Option::None,
        allow_hyphen_values: false,
        allow_negative_numbers: false,
        value_terminator: ::core::option::Option::None,
        require_equals: false,
        value_optional: false,
        bool_value: false,
        default_missing: ::core::option::Option::None,
        global: false,
        action: ArgAction::Set,
    };

    /// A flag that takes a value, for use with struct update syntax.
    pub const VALUE: Flag<'static> = Flag {
        takes_value: true,
        ..Flag::BOOL
    };
}

/// What supplying a declared flag does.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
pub enum ArgAction {
    /// Bind the flag to its declared field.
    #[default]
    Set,
    /// Show help, choosing the long form for a long spelling and the short form otherwise.
    Help,
    /// Always show short help.
    HelpShort,
    /// Always show long help.
    HelpLong,
    /// Show long help for this command and every visible descendant.
    HelpAll,
    /// Show version information.
    Version,
}

/// A positional argument.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Arg<'a> {
    /// Caller-assigned identifier, echoed back in [`Event::Arg`]. See
    /// [`Command::key`] on why it is this wide.
    pub key: u64,
    /// Prefix that classifies this positional independently of declaration order.
    /// The prefix is removed from the value emitted in [`Event::Arg`].
    pub sigil: ::core::option::Option<&'a [u8]>,
    /// Whether post-binding requires this positional to have a value. Kept in the hot
    /// table because `allow_missing_positional` must reserve words for later required args.
    pub required: bool,
    /// Whether this argument keeps taking values once it has one.
    pub var: bool,
    /// How many words a variadic may take before the next argument gets the rest.
    ///
    /// A bound belongs here, in the table binding reads, rather than with the metadata:
    /// it decides *where* a word lands, not whether what landed is acceptable. clap's
    /// `num_args` works the same way, and every spec in the wild is generated from a clap
    /// command. `u32` rather than `usize` because a CLI that bounds a variadic above four
    /// billion has other problems, and this table is read on the hot path.
    pub var_max: ::core::option::Option<u32>,
    /// The byte that makes one word several values, if the argument declares one.
    ///
    /// See [`Flag::delimiter`]: a bound counts values, and only this says how many values a
    /// word carries.
    pub delimiter: ::core::option::Option<u8>,
    /// Whether a negative-number token is accepted as this positional even in
    /// strict flag mode.
    pub allow_negative_numbers: bool,
    /// A token that ends this variadic positional without becoming a value.
    pub value_terminator: ::core::option::Option<&'a [u8]>,
    /// This argument's relationship to the `--` separator.
    pub double_dash: DoubleDash,
    /// Unused by binding, kept so a table entry can carry its own name for
    /// diagnostics.
    pub name: &'a str,
}

impl Arg<'_> {
    /// A single-value argument, for use with struct update syntax.
    pub const REQUIRED: Arg<'static> = Arg {
        key: 0,
        sigil: ::core::option::Option::None,
        required: true,
        var: false,
        var_max: ::core::option::Option::None,
        delimiter: ::core::option::Option::None,
        allow_negative_numbers: false,
        value_terminator: ::core::option::Option::None,
        double_dash: DoubleDash::Optional,
        name: "",
    };

    /// A variadic argument, for use with struct update syntax.
    pub const VAR: Arg<'static> = Arg {
        var: true,
        ..Arg::REQUIRED
    };
}

/// What to do with a flag-like token that names no flag in scope.
///
/// The default is [`UnknownFlags::Value`]: the token carries on to the positional
/// arguments, because a spec is often parsing a command line whose flags belong to
/// something else — a wrapped tool, a task script. A CLI that owns all of its
/// flags declares [`UnknownFlags::Error`] and gets typo detection instead.
///
/// Stored per command and already resolved: inheritance is a question for whoever
/// builds the tables, and answering it at compile time keeps it out of the parse.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
pub enum UnknownFlags {
    /// Offer the token to the positionals. If none can take it, it is an
    /// unexpected argument.
    #[default]
    Value,
    /// Reject the token.
    Error,
}

/// How an argument relates to the `--` separator.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
pub enum DoubleDash {
    /// Values may appear on either side of a `--`.
    #[default]
    Optional,
    /// Values are accepted only after a `--`.
    Required,
    /// A `--` is kept as a value rather than consumed as a separator.
    Preserve,
    /// Once the argument takes a value, behave as if a `--` had been given, so
    /// the rest of the command line is values. A wrapper can then forward flags
    /// without its caller typing the separator.
    Automatic,
}

/// Something the parser bound.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum Event<'t, 'a, 'v> {
    /// A subcommand was selected; parsing continues inside it.
    Command(&'t Command<'t>),
    /// A flag was given. `value` is `Some` for a flag that takes one, and
    /// `negated` is true when the flag was set through its `negate` form.
    Flag {
        flag: &'t Flag<'t>,
        value: Option<&'v [u8]>,
        negated: bool,
    },
    /// A word was bound to a positional argument. A variadic argument produces
    /// one event per value.
    Arg {
        arg: &'t Arg<'t>,
        value: &'v [u8],
        /// Whether this value should be split by the argument's declared delimiter.
        delimit: bool,
    },
    /// Ended one clause instance and began the next.
    ClauseSeparator { clause: Clause<'t> },
    /// An unmatched word was forwarded as an external command: the name, then
    /// every remaining token, including flags.
    External { values: &'a [&'v OsStr] },
}

/// A binding failure.
///
/// Carries the offending token so a caller can render a good message, but no
/// message of its own: rendering belongs to a cold path, and building a string
/// here would allocate on the way to reporting that nothing was allocated.
///
/// `non_exhaustive`, because an error enum grows: a caller matching on it needs a
/// fallback arm so that recognizing a new failure is never a breaking change.
// No `Copy`: one variant owns its message. `Clone` stays, and the enum is still 40 bytes
// because that variant is boxed, so nothing on the hot path grew.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum Error<'t, 'v> {
    /// A flag-like token matched no flag in scope. `token` is the whole token as
    /// typed, so a bundle containing an unrecognized letter reports `-fz` rather
    /// than the letter alone — which is also the unit in which it is rejected.
    UnknownFlag { token: &'v [u8] },
    /// A flag that needs a value did not get one, either because the command
    /// line ended or because the next token was flag-like.
    MissingFlagValue { flag: &'t Flag<'t> },
    /// A word arrived with no argument left to hold it.
    UnexpectedArg { token: &'v [u8] },
    /// A word was offered to a `double_dash = "required"` argument before any
    /// `--` had been seen.
    ArgRequiresDoubleDash { arg: &'t Arg<'t> },
    /// A subcommand was selected after this command had already bound an argument.
    SubcommandConflict { subcommand: &'t Command<'t> },
    /// The command tree is deeper than [`MAX_DEPTH`].
    TooDeep,

    // The rest are raised *after* the parse, by whoever owns the target type: they
    // need to know a value's declared type, which the parser deliberately does not.
    // They share this enum so that a caller has one error to handle rather than two.
    /// Something the command requires was never given.
    MissingRequired {
        /// The flag or argument's name, as the spec calls it.
        name: &'t str,
    },
    /// A flag that is not repeatable was given more than once.
    DuplicateFlag {
        /// The flag's name, as the spec calls it.
        name: &'t str,
    },
    /// A value was given that is not among the declared choices.
    ///
    /// Carries the choices rather than the offending value: rendering the value means
    /// owning it, and an error that allocates on a path this crate promises not to
    /// allocate on would be a poor trade for a better message. Diagnostics are a
    /// separate layer.
    InvalidChoice {
        name: &'t str,
        choices: &'t [&'t str],
    },
    /// Fewer values than `var_min`.
    VarTooFew {
        name: &'t str,
        min: usize,
        got: usize,
    },
    /// More values than `var_max`.
    VarTooMany {
        name: &'t str,
        max: usize,
        got: usize,
    },
    /// Two flags declared to conflict were both given.
    ///
    /// Carries both names because either one alone reads as a puzzle: which flag is
    /// unwelcome depends entirely on what else is on the command line.
    ConflictingFlags {
        /// The flag whose declaration names the conflict.
        name: &'t str,
        /// The flag it cannot be given with, as the declaration spells it.
        other: &'t str,
    },
    /// A value was given that the field's type could not be built from.
    ///
    /// Boxed, and the only error here that owns anything. Everything else borrows the
    /// tables or argv, which is what keeps a *successful* parse allocation-free — and the
    /// box keeps `Error` the size it was, so the `Result` this rides in on the hot path
    /// does not grow. A value that will not convert has already failed, and a message
    /// worth reading is worth one allocation.
    InvalidValue(::std::boxed::Box<InvalidValue<'t>>),
    /// A required group had none of its members given.
    ///
    /// Carries the members as members rather than as a rendered sentence: the caller
    /// decides how to say it, and a completion asking what would satisfy this needs the
    /// list rather than the prose.
    MissingGroup {
        /// The group's declared name, which appears in the message so a command with
        /// several groups does not report the same sentence twice.
        group: &'t str,
        /// The flags that would satisfy it, as the declaration spells them.
        members: &'t [&'t str],
    },
    /// A subcommand was required, and none was given.
    MissingSubcommand,
    /// `--help` or `-h` was given, and `cmd` is what it was asked about.
    ///
    /// Not a failure, and returned as one anyway: a parse that stops to print help has not
    /// produced a value, and every caller already handles the "no value" shape. clap does the
    /// same thing for the same reason.
    ///
    /// `long` distinguishes the two: `-h` prints the short form and `--help` the long one, as
    /// clap has them. The caller renders — this crate does not print, because a library that
    /// writes to stdout on its own is one an adopter cannot embed.
    Help { cmd: &'t Command<'t>, long: bool },
    /// `arg_required_else_help` found no command-line arguments for `cmd`.
    ///
    /// Unlike an explicit help request, this is a usage failure: clap prints the short help to
    /// stderr and exits with status 2. Keeping the shape separate lets embedders preserve that
    /// terminal contract without guessing why [`Error::Help`] was returned.
    MissingArgsHelp { cmd: &'t Command<'t> },
    /// Recursive long help was requested for `cmd` and every visible descendant.
    HelpAll { cmd: &'t Command<'t> },
    /// `--version` or `-V` was asked for. Not a failure either — the caller prints and leaves.
    ///
    /// The version string lives in the spec rather than the parse tables. `long` lets the
    /// caller choose `long_version` for `--version` while `-V` retains the concise value.
    Version { long: bool },
}

/// The high half of every key one declaration's items get.
///
/// A derive cannot see other expansions, so it cannot hand out keys from a shared
/// counter: it hashes the declaration it was given instead. It cannot see a module path
/// either, which is why the module is mixed in *here* — `module_path!()` is available to
/// the generated code as a compile-time string, so two byte-identical declarations in
/// different modules end up with different keys rather than colliding.
///
/// `declaration` is a hash the derive computed over the item's own tokens.
pub const fn key_base(module: &str, declaration: u32) -> u64 {
    // FNV-1a, continuing from the declaration's hash rather than starting over, so both
    // halves contribute. Spelled out rather than taken from a `Hasher`, which is not
    // guaranteed to be stable between compilations — and these are baked into a binary.
    let mut hash: u32 = declaration;
    let bytes = module.as_bytes();
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < bytes.len() {
        hash ^= bytes[i] as u32;
        hash = hash.wrapping_mul(0x0100_0193);
        i += 1;
    }
    (hash as u64) << 32
}

/// Why a value would not convert into the type its field holds.
///
/// Separate from [`Error`] so that the enum stays small: this is reached through a `Box`.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct InvalidValue<'t> {
    /// The flag or argument's name, as the spec calls it.
    pub name: &'t str,
    /// The text that would not convert.
    pub value: ::std::string::String,
    /// What the type's own conversion complained about.
    pub reason: ::std::string::String,
}

/// A command-wide validation or finalization failure.
///
/// Return this from a `#[usage(validate_with = ...)]` hook or from the
/// `TryFrom` implementation named by `#[usage(try_into = ...)]`. The derive
/// turns it into the same [`Error::InvalidValue`] diagnostic used by field
/// conversion, so callers keep one parse error type.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct ValidationError {
    name: &'static str,
    value: String,
    reason: String,
}

impl ValidationError {
    /// Start an error attributed to a flag, positional, or command name.
    pub fn field(name: &'static str) -> Self {
        Self {
            name,
            value: String::new(),
            reason: String::new(),
        }
    }

    /// Record the value that failed the command-wide invariant.
    pub fn value(mut self, value: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
        self.value = value.into();
        self
    }

    /// Explain the invariant that the value did not satisfy.
    pub fn reason(mut self, reason: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
        self.reason = reason.into();
        self
    }

    /// Convert this application-level failure into the parser's diagnostic.
    pub fn into_parse_error<'v>(self) -> Error<'static, 'v> {
        Error::InvalidValue(Box::new(InvalidValue {
            name: self.name,
            value: self.value,
            reason: self.reason,
        }))
    }
}

/// Interpret a value as UTF-8.
///
/// The parser hands back bytes borrowed from `argv`; this is the conversion most
/// callers want, and the point at which a non-UTF-8 command line is rejected —
/// but only for the values actually inspected.
pub fn as_str(value: &[u8]) -> Result<&str, std::str::Utf8Error> {
    std::str::from_utf8(value)
}

/// How many entries a group of tables holds in total.
///
/// The length for [`concat_flags`] and [`concat_args`], which need it as a const generic — so
/// it has to be computable separately from the concatenation itself.
///
/// ```
/// use usage_argv::{table_len, Flag};
///
/// static A: Flag = Flag { name: "a", ..Flag::BOOL };
/// static B: Flag = Flag { name: "b", ..Flag::BOOL };
/// const GROUPS: &[&[&Flag]] = &[&[&A], &[], &[&B]];
/// const N: usize = table_len(GROUPS);
/// assert_eq!(N, 2);
/// ```
pub const fn table_len<T>(groups: &[&[T]]) -> usize {
    let mut total = 0;
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < groups.len() {
        total += groups[i].len();
        i += 1;
    }
    total
}

/// `all[start..start + len]`, at compile time, for a table that points into a joined one.
///
/// A flattened type's metadata names its own run of the parent's joined tables rather than
/// keeping a second copy of every entry.
#[doc(hidden)]
pub const fn __usage_subslice<T>(all: &'static [T], start: usize, len: usize) -> &'static [T] {
    let (_, tail) = all.split_at(start);
    let (run, _) = tail.split_at(len);
    run
}

/// Join groups of flag tables into one, at compile time.
///
/// This is how `#[usage(flatten)]` stays free. A flattened struct's flags have to appear in
/// the parent's own table, and the parent's macro expansion cannot see them — it has only a
/// type. But it can name that type's [`CommandArgs::COMMAND`](crate::spec::CommandArgs::COMMAND),
/// and a `const fn` can read through it, so the two lists become one `static` array before the
/// program runs. The parser then walks a single flat slice, exactly as it does for a command
/// that declared everything itself: flatten costs nothing at run time.
///
/// Groups are laid out in the order given, which is what lets a flattened group sit *between*
/// two of the parent's own declarations — necessary for positional arguments, where order is
/// the meaning.
///
/// `N` must be [`table_len`] of the same groups. It cannot be inferred, and a wrong one fails
/// to compile rather than leaving the difference filled with padding.
///
/// ```
/// use usage_argv::{concat_flags, table_len, Flag};
///
/// static FORCE: Flag = Flag { name: "force", longs: &["force"], ..Flag::BOOL };
/// static QUIET: Flag = Flag { name: "quiet", longs: &["quiet"], ..Flag::BOOL };
/// static SHARED: &[&Flag] = &[&QUIET];
///
/// const GROUPS: &[&[&Flag]] = &[&[&FORCE], SHARED];
/// static FLAGS: [&Flag; table_len(GROUPS)] = concat_flags(GROUPS);
///
/// assert_eq!(FLAGS.iter().map(|f| f.name).collect::<Vec<_>>(), ["force", "quiet"]);
/// ```
pub const fn concat_flags<const N: usize>(
    groups: &[&[&'static Flag<'static>]],
) -> [&'static Flag<'static>; N] {
    // Every slot is written below, but an array has to start somewhere and `MaybeUninit`
    // would mean `unsafe`. A `Flag` nobody can reach is cheaper than that.
    static PLACEHOLDER: Flag<'static> = Flag::BOOL;
    let mut out = [&PLACEHOLDER; N];
    let mut at = 0;
    let mut g = 0;
    while g < groups.len() {
        let group = groups[g];
        let mut i = 0;
        while i < group.len() {
            out[at] = group[i];
            at += 1;
            i += 1;
        }
        g += 1;
    }
    assert!(
        at == N,
        "`N` must be `table_len` of the same groups, or the table would keep a placeholder \
         that answers to nothing"
    );
    out
}

/// Join groups of argument tables into one, at compile time.
///
/// The positional counterpart of [`concat_flags`] — see there for why this exists. Order
/// matters more here: an argument's position *is* its identity, so a flattened group has to
/// land exactly where the field was written.
///
/// Two functions rather than one generic: each needs a value to fill an array with before
/// overwriting it, and there is no way to ask a type parameter for one in a `const fn`.
pub const fn concat_args<const N: usize>(
    groups: &[&[&'static Arg<'static>]],
) -> [&'static Arg<'static>; N] {
    static PLACEHOLDER: Arg<'static> = Arg::REQUIRED;
    let mut out = [&PLACEHOLDER; N];
    let mut at = 0;
    let mut g = 0;
    while g < groups.len() {
        let group = groups[g];
        let mut i = 0;
        while i < group.len() {
            out[at] = group[i];
            at += 1;
            i += 1;
        }
        g += 1;
    }
    assert!(
        at == N,
        "`N` must be `table_len` of the same groups, or the table would keep a placeholder \
         that answers to nothing"
    );
    out
}

/// The key `--help` answers to, and the one `-h` does.
///
/// Reserved rather than generated: a derive builds keys from a hash of the type they came from
/// in the high half and an index in the low half, so the top of the range belongs to nobody.
/// Generated code compares against these to tell a help request from a flag of its own.
pub const HELP_LONG_KEY: u64 = u64::MAX;
/// See [`HELP_LONG_KEY`].
pub const HELP_SHORT_KEY: u64 = u64::MAX - 1;

/// `--help`, which every command answers to.
///
/// In the parse table and *not* in the metadata, which is the whole trick: the parser has to
/// recognise the flag, and help output must not list it — a spec does not declare `--help`, so
/// showing one would make the rendered page disagree with the spec it came from.
pub static HELP_LONG: Flag<'static> = Flag {
    key: HELP_LONG_KEY,
    name: "help",
    longs: &["help"],
    action: ArgAction::HelpLong,
    ..Flag::BOOL
};

/// See [`HELP_LONG_KEY`].
pub const VERSION_LONG_KEY: u64 = u64::MAX - 2;
/// See [`HELP_LONG_KEY`].
pub const VERSION_SHORT_KEY: u64 = u64::MAX - 3;

/// `--version`, where the CLI declared one.
///
/// In the parse table and not in the metadata, exactly as `--help` is: a spec does not declare
/// `--version`, so listing one would make the rendered page disagree with the spec it came from.
pub static VERSION_LONG: Flag<'static> = Flag {
    key: VERSION_LONG_KEY,
    name: "version",
    longs: &["version"],
    action: ArgAction::Version,
    ..Flag::BOOL
};

/// `-V`, which clap also supplies.
pub static VERSION_SHORT: Flag<'static> = Flag {
    key: VERSION_SHORT_KEY,
    name: "version",
    shorts: b"V",
    action: ArgAction::Version,
    ..Flag::BOOL
};

/// `-h`, which prints the shorter form.
pub static HELP_SHORT: Flag<'static> = Flag {
    key: HELP_SHORT_KEY,
    name: "help",
    shorts: b"h",
    action: ArgAction::HelpShort,
    ..Flag::BOOL
};

/// A named subcommand of a given command, by name or alias.
///
/// Free rather than a method because `help` resolves a path *without* descending: the words
/// after it are a question about a command rather than a walk into one.
///
/// Names across every subcommand before any alias, the precedence the grammar states — and
/// the reason this is the only implementation of it on argv's side. `ex run` and `ex help run`
/// selecting different commands would be exactly the divergence this rule was written to end.
#[inline(never)]
pub(crate) fn find_named<'t>(cmd: &'t Command<'t>, name: &[u8]) -> Option<&'t Command<'t>> {
    let subcommands = || cmd.subcommands.iter().copied();
    subcommands()
        .find(|c| c.name.as_bytes() == name)
        .or_else(|| subcommands().find(|c| c.aliases.iter().any(|a| a.as_bytes() == name)))
}

/// What a caller should print for a parse failure, and what to exit with.
///
/// The one entry point a generated `parse()` reaches for, and the reason it exists here rather
/// than in the derive: whether the good rendering is available is a *feature of this crate* in
/// the adopter's dependency graph, and a `#[cfg]` written into generated code is evaluated in
/// the adopter's crate, where the feature is not theirs to see. That is how a metadata field
/// once got silently dropped; the answer is that the cfg lives beside the thing it gates.
///
/// With `diagnostics` on, this is the clap-shaped message. Without it, the error's `Debug`
/// form — which is still better than nothing and is what a parser-only build asked for.
///
/// [`Error::Help`] and [`Error::Version`] are not failures and must be handled before this.
#[cfg(feature = "diagnostics")]
pub fn render_failure(spec: &spec::Spec<'_>, argv: &[&OsStr], error: &Error<'_, '_>) -> String {
    diagnostic::render(spec, argv, error, diagnostic::Style::auto())
}

/// A parse failure, never coloured.
///
/// [`render_failure`] asks the environment whether to colour, which is right for a process and
/// wrong for anything that keeps the string: a test that asserts on a message, or a snapshot of
/// one, would pass or fail by whether stderr happened to be a terminal. The renderer is the
/// same; only the answer to that question is fixed.
#[cfg(feature = "diagnostics")]
pub fn render_failure_plain(
    spec: &spec::Spec<'_>,
    argv: &[&OsStr],
    error: &Error<'_, '_>,
) -> String {
    diagnostic::render(spec, argv, error, diagnostic::Style::PLAIN)
}

/// Render a failure through a spec-declared executable view.
///
/// `argv` is the original full argv, including the view executable as argv0.
#[cfg(feature = "diagnostics")]
pub fn render_failure_view<'a>(
    spec: &'a spec::Spec<'a>,
    argv: &[&OsStr],
    error: &Error<'_, '_>,
    view: &'a spec::ViewMeta<'a>,
) -> String {
    diagnostic::render_view(spec, argv, error, diagnostic::Style::auto(), view)
}

/// What a caller should print for a parse failure, without the renderer that makes it readable.
///
/// See the other half. A caller that wants the clap-shaped message turns on `diagnostics`;
/// this is what a parser-only build asked for, and it still says which error it was.
#[cfg(all(feature = "spec", not(feature = "diagnostics")))]
pub fn render_failure(spec: &spec::Spec<'_>, argv: &[&OsStr], error: &Error<'_, '_>) -> String {
    let _ = (spec, argv);
    ::std::format!("error: {error:?}\n")
}

/// A parse failure without the renderer, which is plain either way.
#[cfg(all(feature = "spec", not(feature = "diagnostics")))]
pub fn render_failure_plain(
    spec: &spec::Spec<'_>,
    argv: &[&OsStr],
    error: &Error<'_, '_>,
) -> String {
    render_failure(spec, argv, error)
}

/// Render a failure through a declared view without the optional diagnostics renderer.
#[cfg(all(feature = "spec", not(feature = "diagnostics")))]
pub fn render_failure_view(
    spec: &spec::Spec<'_>,
    argv: &[&OsStr],
    error: &Error<'_, '_>,
    view: &spec::ViewMeta<'_>,
) -> String {
    let _ = (spec, argv, view);
    ::std::format!("error: {error:?}\n")
}

/// Answer an error from a generated `parse()` the way a command-line program does, and leave.
///
/// A help request goes to stdout and exits 0; a request for help because nothing was given goes
/// to stderr and exits 2; any other failure is rendered to stderr and exits 2, which is clap's
/// status, so a script that checks for it keeps working. [`Error::Version`] is the caller's to
/// answer before this, since only the generated code knows the version it prints.
///
/// Here rather than expanded into every CLI: the body is the same for all of them, and only the
/// spec — which carries any computed identity the generated code has already evaluated — and
/// the tables differ. `all_argv` includes argv0, which a view's route needs; `argv` does not.
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_exit_on_error(
    error: Error<'_, '_>,
    spec: &spec::Spec<'_>,
    root: &Command<'_>,
    all_argv: &[&OsStr],
    argv: &[&OsStr],
    view: Option<&spec::ViewMeta<'_>>,
) -> ! {
    let (want, to_stderr, cmd) = match error {
        Error::Help { cmd, long } => {
            let want = if long {
                help::Page::Long
            } else {
                help::Page::Short
            };
            (want, false, cmd)
        }
        Error::MissingArgsHelp { cmd } => (help::Page::Short, true, cmd),
        Error::HelpAll { cmd } => (help::Page::All, false, cmd),
        error => {
            let failure = match view {
                Some(view) => render_failure_view(spec, all_argv, &error, view),
                None => render_failure(spec, argv, &error),
            };
            __usage_eprint(format_args!("{failure}"));
            __usage_process_exit(2);
        }
    };
    let style = if to_stderr {
        help::Style::auto_stderr()
    } else {
        help::Style::auto()
    };
    let page = match view {
        Some(view) => help::page_view(spec, root, all_argv, cmd, view, want, style),
        None => help::page(spec, root, argv, cmd, want, style),
    };
    // `None` is only reachable if the command came from another CLI's tables.
    if let Some(page) = page {
        if to_stderr {
            __usage_eprint(format_args!("{page}"));
        } else {
            __usage_print(format_args!("{page}"));
        }
    }
    __usage_process_exit(if to_stderr { 2 } else { 0 })
}

/// Print `bin version` for a generated `parse()`, and leave.
///
/// The half of [`__usage_exit_on_error`] the generated code answers itself, because the
/// version is a declaration of that CLI; the printing and the exit are the same everywhere.
#[cfg(feature = "spec")]
#[doc(hidden)]
pub fn __usage_exit_version(
    bin: &str,
    view: Option<&spec::ViewMeta<'_>>,
    version: &dyn std::fmt::Display,
) -> ! {
    let bin = view.map_or(bin, |view| view.bin);
    __usage_print(format_args!("{bin} {version}\n"));
    __usage_process_exit(0)
}

/// What a caller should print for the deprecations a command line used.
///
/// The same arrangement as [`render_failure`], and for the same reason: whether the coloured
/// rendering is available is a feature of *this* crate in the adopter's dependency graph, so the
/// `#[cfg]` lives beside the thing it gates rather than in generated code.
///
/// Warnings are not failures. A caller prints these to stderr and carries on.
#[cfg(feature = "diagnostics")]
pub fn render_warnings(warnings: &[warn::Warning<'_>]) -> String {
    diagnostic::render_warnings(warnings, diagnostic::Style::auto())
}

/// The same wording without the renderer that colours it. See the other half.
#[cfg(all(feature = "spec", not(feature = "diagnostics")))]
pub fn render_warnings(warnings: &[warn::Warning<'_>]) -> String {
    warn::render_warnings(warnings)
}

/// The word a tool sends to ask a binary for its own spec.
///
/// Not a flag and not a command: a spec request is not something this CLI *does*, so it is
/// answered before the parse and stays out of the tables — the same reason
/// `__complete_word__` is a word rather than a subcommand. It also keeps the endpoint from
/// perturbing the document it prints, which a declared flag would not.
pub const SPEC_REQUEST: &str = "__usage_spec__";

/// Whether this argv asks for the spec rather than for the CLI to run.
///
/// Only the first word counts: `mycli build __usage_spec__` passes the word through as an
/// ordinary value, because a request is the whole invocation or it is nothing.
///
/// A root that declares a command of that name keeps it, which is the precedence the `help`
/// subcommand already has. The check is here rather than in the derive because a `Cli` derive
/// expands one struct and cannot see the variant names of a separate `Subcommands` enum — the
/// static tables can.
pub fn is_spec_request(root: &Command<'_>, argv: &[&OsStr]) -> bool {
    let [first, ..] = argv else { return false };
    first.as_encoded_bytes() == SPEC_REQUEST.as_bytes()
        && find_named(root, SPEC_REQUEST.as_bytes()).is_none()
}

/// Whether a flag is one of the two the parser supplies rather than the CLI declaring it.
pub fn is_help_flag(flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
    matches!(
        flag.action,
        ArgAction::Help | ArgAction::HelpShort | ArgAction::HelpLong | ArgAction::HelpAll
    )
}

/// Whether a flag is one of the two the parser supplies for `--version`.
pub fn is_version_flag(flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
    flag.action == ArgAction::Version
}

/// Whether one exact root argument selects a declared or synthesized version action.
///
/// Declared flags are checked first because they shadow the built-in `--version` and `-V`
/// spellings. Executable views use this before projection so custom version spellings keep
/// reporting the package that owns the view.
pub fn is_version_arg(cmd: &Command<'_>, word: &OsStr) -> bool {
    let token = word.as_encoded_bytes();
    if let Some(long) = token.strip_prefix(b"--") {
        if let Some(flag) = cmd.flags.iter().find(|flag| {
            flag.longs
                .iter()
                .any(|spelling| spelling.as_bytes() == long)
        }) {
            return is_version_flag(flag);
        }
        if cmd.flags.iter().any(|flag| {
            flag.negate
                .is_some_and(|spelling| spelling.as_bytes() == long)
        }) {
            return false;
        }
        return long == b"version" && cmd.version && !cmd.disable_version_flag;
    }
    if let [b'-', short] = token {
        if let Some(flag) = cmd.flags.iter().find(|flag| has_byte(flag.shorts, *short)) {
            return is_version_flag(flag);
        }
        return *short == b'V' && cmd.version && !cmd.disable_version_flag;
    }
    false
}

/// Resolve a subcommand by name or alias, at compile time.
///
/// For [`Command::default_subcommand`], which names a command that a derive cannot see: the
/// variants of a subcommand enum are a different macro expansion, so the name is all the
/// parent has. Searching the list in a `const fn` closes that gap — the answer is the same
/// `&'static` the table already holds, found before the program runs.
///
/// A name no subcommand answers to is a **compile error**, since this panics during const
/// evaluation. That is the whole point of doing it here rather than at startup.
///
/// ```
/// use usage_argv::{find_subcommand, Command};
///
/// static RUN: Command = Command { name: "run", ..Command::EMPTY };
/// static SUBS: &[&Command] = &[&RUN];
/// static ROOT: Command = Command {
///     name: "ex",
///     subcommands: SUBS,
///     default_subcommand: Some(find_subcommand(SUBS, "run")),
///     ..Command::EMPTY
/// };
/// assert_eq!(ROOT.default_subcommand.unwrap().name, "run");
/// ```
pub const fn find_subcommand<'a>(
    subcommands: &'a [&'a Command<'a>],
    name: &str,
) -> &'a Command<'a> {
    // Names first, then aliases: a command's own name outranks another command's alias, so
    // the answer does not depend on the order the table happens to list them in. Checking
    // each candidate's name *and* aliases in one pass instead let whichever command came
    // first win, and usage-lib resolved the same spec to the last one.
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < subcommands.len() {
        if str_eq(subcommands[i].name, name) {
            return subcommands[i];
        }
        i += 1;
    }
    // Aliases answer too, because usage-lib resolves the name against names, aliases and
    // hidden aliases alike — so a spec may point `default_subcommand` at any of them.
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < subcommands.len() {
        let candidate = subcommands[i];
        let mut a = 0;
        while a < candidate.aliases.len() {
            if str_eq(candidate.aliases[a], name) {
                return candidate;
            }
            a += 1;
        }
        i += 1;
    }
    panic!("`default_subcommand` names a command that this one does not have")
}

/// Refuse two subcommands that answer to the same name, aliases included.
///
/// A derive expansion can validate aliases written on one enum, but aliases may also live on
/// the independently expanded `Args` structs its variants wrap. This final, joined-table check
/// is where both declarations are visible.
pub const fn assert_unique_subcommand_names(subcommands: &[&Command<'_>]) {
    const fn form<'a>(cmd: &'a Command<'a>, at: usize) -> Option<&'a str> {
        if at == 0 {
            Some(cmd.name)
        } else if at <= cmd.aliases.len() {
            Some(cmd.aliases[at - 1])
        } else {
            None
        }
    }

    let mut command = 0;
    while command < subcommands.len() {
        let mut at = 0;
        while let Some(name) = form(subcommands[command], at) {
            let mut other_command = command;
            while other_command < subcommands.len() {
                let mut other_at = if other_command == command { at + 1 } else { 0 };
                while let Some(other) = form(subcommands[other_command], other_at) {
                    assert!(
                        !str_eq(name, other),
                        "two subcommands answer to the same name, counting aliases"
                    );
                    other_at += 1;
                }
                other_command += 1;
            }
            at += 1;
        }
        command += 1;
    }
}

/// Assert that flags scoped to a clause do not reuse a command-level spelling.
///
/// Derive-generated command tables include scoped flags so the parser can find them. Entries
/// that share a key are therefore the same declaration and are ignored here; every other pair
/// must have disjoint long, short, alias, and negated spellings.
pub const fn assert_clause_flag_spellings(command: &Command<'_>) {
    let Some(clause) = command.clause else {
        return;
    };
    let mut scoped_at = 0;
    while scoped_at < clause.flags.len() {
        let scoped = clause.flags[scoped_at];
        let mut command_at = 0;
        while command_at < command.flags.len() {
            let flag = command.flags[command_at];
            if flag.key != scoped.key && const_flag_forms_overlap(flag, scoped) {
                panic!("a clause flag spelling conflicts with a command-level flag");
            }
            command_at += 1;
        }
        scoped_at += 1;
    }
}

const fn const_flag_forms_overlap(a: &Flag<'_>, b: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < a.longs.len() {
        let mut j = 0;
        while j < b.longs.len() {
            if const_bytes_eq(a.longs[i].as_bytes(), b.longs[j].as_bytes()) {
                return true;
            }
            j += 1;
        }
        if let Some(negate) = b.negate
            && const_bytes_eq(a.longs[i].as_bytes(), negate.as_bytes())
        {
            return true;
        }
        i += 1;
    }
    i = 0;
    while i < a.shorts.len() {
        let mut j = 0;
        while j < b.shorts.len() {
            if a.shorts[i] == b.shorts[j] {
                return true;
            }
            j += 1;
        }
        i += 1;
    }
    if let Some(negate) = a.negate {
        let mut j = 0;
        while j < b.longs.len() {
            if const_bytes_eq(negate.as_bytes(), b.longs[j].as_bytes()) {
                return true;
            }
            j += 1;
        }
        if let Some(other) = b.negate
            && const_bytes_eq(negate.as_bytes(), other.as_bytes())
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
    false
}

const fn const_bytes_eq(a: &[u8], b: &[u8]) -> bool {
    if a.len() != b.len() {
        return false;
    }
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < a.len() {
        if a[i] != b[i] {
            return false;
        }
        i += 1;
    }
    true
}

/// `==` on strings, in a `const fn`.
const fn str_eq(a: &str, b: &str) -> bool {
    let (a, b) = (a.as_bytes(), b.as_bytes());
    if a.len() != b.len() {
        return false;
    }
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < a.len() {
        if a[i] != b[i] {
            return false;
        }
        i += 1;
    }
    true
}

/// Rebuild an [`OsString`] from bytes the parser handed back.
///
/// This is the reverse of [`OsStr::as_encoded_bytes`], and it is how a `PathBuf` field
/// receives a filename the operating system accepts but UTF-8 does not — `/tmp/\xff` stays
/// `/tmp/\xff` rather than becoming a *different* filename with `U+FFFD` in it.
///
/// Where the platform cannot hold those bytes, they are handed back in the `Err` — as
/// `String::from_utf8` does — so the caller can name the value in its error without this
/// having to copy it for a case that is nearly never taken.
///
/// # Why this is not `unsafe`, and why it is not lossless everywhere
///
/// On **Unix** an `OsString` is an arbitrary byte sequence, so the conversion is total and
/// uses the safe [`OsStringExt::from_vec`]. Every byte survives, which is the case that
/// matters: non-UTF-8 filenames are ordinary there.
///
/// [`OsStringExt::from_vec`]: std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt::from_vec
///
/// On **Windows** the encoding is WTF-8, where not every byte sequence is valid, and the only
/// constructor that accepts one is `OsString::from_encoded_bytes_unchecked` — whose
/// precondition this function cannot enforce. It takes a `Vec<u8>` from a safe caller, so
/// there is no way to know the bytes came from `as_encoded_bytes` rather than from anywhere
/// else, and a safe function with a precondition that can be violated is unsound however
/// carefully its callers behave today.
///
/// So on Windows the bytes go through UTF-8, and one that is not valid UTF-8 is refused
/// rather than assumed. What that gives up is a Windows argument containing an unpaired
/// surrogate, which is reported instead of accepted; what it buys is that this crate needs no
/// `unsafe` at all.
pub fn os_string_from_bytes(value: Vec<u8>) -> Result<OsString, Vec<u8>> {
    #[cfg(unix)]
    {
        Ok(std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt::from_vec(value))
    }
    #[cfg(not(unix))]
    {
        match String::from_utf8(value) {
            Ok(text) => Ok(OsString::from(text)),
            Err(bad) => Err(bad.into_bytes()),
        }
    }
}

/// A sigil argument given its sigil and nothing after it. Out of line and cold: two places in the
/// parser report it, and neither is on the path of a command line that parses.
#[cold]
#[inline(never)]
fn sigil_without_value<'t, 'v>(arg: &'t Arg<'t>, token: &[u8], sigil: &[u8]) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
    invalid_value_error(
        arg.name,
        as_str(token).unwrap_or_default().to_string(),
        format!(
            "expected a value after sigil {:?}",
            as_str(sigil).unwrap_or_default()
        ),
    )
}

/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`], built out of line.
///
/// Cold and never inlined on purpose: this is the failure path of every value
/// conversion in every generated `build`, and inlining it there is what made
/// those functions large.
#[cold]
#[inline(never)]
pub(crate) fn invalid_value_error<'t, 'v>(
    name: &'t str,
    value: String,
    reason: String,
) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
    Error::InvalidValue(Box::new(InvalidValue {
        name,
        value,
        reason,
    }))
}

/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for a word that was not UTF-8.
///
/// The error half of what a generated `build` does per text field: the check stays
/// inline at the field, and this — the lossy rendering and the allocations — lives
/// here once instead of once per field.
#[cold]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn invalid_utf8_value<'t, 'v>(name: &'t str, bad: std::string::FromUtf8Error) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
    invalid_value_error(
        name,
        String::from_utf8_lossy(bad.as_bytes()).into_owned(),
        bad.utf8_error().to_string(),
    )
}

/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for a value whose type would not build from it.
///
/// Takes the reason as `&dyn Display` so one copy serves every `FromStr` error type.
#[cold]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn invalid_parsed_value<'t, 'v>(
    name: &'t str,
    value: String,
    reason: &dyn std::fmt::Display,
) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
    invalid_value_error(name, value, reason.to_string())
}

/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for a word that is not one of a value enum's choices.
#[cold]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn invalid_choice_value<'t, 'v>(name: &'t str, value: String) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
    invalid_value_error(name, value, String::from("not one of the declared values"))
}

/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for bytes the platform cannot hold in a path.
#[cold]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn invalid_os_value<'t, 'v>(name: &'t str, bytes: Vec<u8>) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
    invalid_value_error(
        name,
        String::from_utf8_lossy(&bytes).into_owned(),
        "this platform cannot hold these bytes in a path".to_string(),
    )
}

/// Convert every repeated value of one text field, reporting `name` for the
/// first that is not UTF-8.
///
/// The shared body of what a generated `build` does per collecting text field:
/// one loop in the binary rather than one per field. Converts element by
/// element rather than with `collect` so the error can carry the value that
/// failed rather than only that one did.
///
/// The empty case is answered here rather than in the shared loop, and this is
/// what keeps sharing the loop free: a command at mise's scale declares dozens
/// of collecting fields and a command line names one or two of them, so most of
/// these calls have nothing to convert. Testing that at the field costs a branch;
/// reaching the loop to learn it costs the call.
#[inline]
pub fn utf8_values<'t, 'v>(
    values: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
    name: &'t str,
) -> Result<Vec<String>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
    if values.is_empty() {
        return Ok(Vec::new());
    }
    utf8_values_given(values, name)
}

#[inline(never)]
fn utf8_values_given<'t, 'v>(
    values: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
    name: &'t str,
) -> Result<Vec<String>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(values.len());
    for value in values {
        match String::from_utf8(value) {
            Ok(text) => out.push(text),
            Err(bad) => return Err(invalid_utf8_value(name, bad)),
        }
    }
    Ok(out)
}

/// Convert every repeated value of one field through
/// [`FromStr`](std::str::FromStr), reporting `name` for the first that fails.
///
/// Monomorphized once per target type rather than expanded once per field, and
/// the empty case is answered at the field for the reason [`utf8_values`] gives.
#[inline]
pub fn parsed_values<'t, 'v, T>(
    values: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
    name: &'t str,
) -> Result<Vec<T>, Error<'t, 'v>>
where
    T: std::str::FromStr,
    T::Err: std::fmt::Display,
{
    if values.is_empty() {
        return Ok(Vec::new());
    }
    parsed_values_given(values, name)
}

#[inline(never)]
fn parsed_values_given<'t, 'v, T>(
    values: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
    name: &'t str,
) -> Result<Vec<T>, Error<'t, 'v>>
where
    T: std::str::FromStr,
    T::Err: std::fmt::Display,
{
    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(values.len());
    for value in values {
        let text = match String::from_utf8(value) {
            Ok(text) => text,
            Err(bad) => return Err(invalid_utf8_value(name, bad)),
        };
        match text.parse() {
            Ok(parsed) => out.push(parsed),
            Err(reason) => return Err(invalid_parsed_value(name, text, &reason)),
        }
    }
    Ok(out)
}

/// Convert every repeated value of one path-like field, reporting `name` for
/// the first the platform cannot hold.
///
/// `T` is what the field collects — [`PathBuf`](std::path::PathBuf) or
/// [`OsString`] — so one body serves both. The same platform note as
/// [`os_string_from_bytes`] applies: lossless on Unix, partial on Windows. The
/// empty case is answered at the field for the reason [`utf8_values`] gives.
#[inline]
pub fn os_values<'t, 'v, T: From<OsString>>(
    values: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
    name: &'t str,
) -> Result<Vec<T>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
    if values.is_empty() {
        return Ok(Vec::new());
    }
    os_values_given(values, name)
}

#[inline(never)]
fn os_values_given<'t, 'v, T: From<OsString>>(
    values: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
    name: &'t str,
) -> Result<Vec<T>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(values.len());
    for value in values {
        match os_string_from_bytes(value) {
            Ok(os) => out.push(T::from(os)),
            Err(bytes) => return Err(invalid_os_value(name, bytes)),
        }
    }
    Ok(out)
}

/// What a generated `apply` stores for a flag that takes one value: the word, or nothing
/// when the flag arrived without one.
///
/// Out of line because the copy is an allocation, a `memcpy`, and the drop of whatever the
/// field held before — a few dozen instructions that would otherwise be expanded at every
/// value-taking field of every command.
#[doc(hidden)]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn bind_text(slot: &mut Vec<u8>, value: Option<&[u8]>) {
    *slot = value.map(<[u8]>::to_vec).unwrap_or_default();
}

/// [`bind_text`] for an `Option<T>` field, which a flag without a value still fills.
#[doc(hidden)]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn bind_some_text(slot: &mut Option<Vec<u8>>, value: Option<&[u8]>) {
    *slot = Some(value.map(<[u8]>::to_vec).unwrap_or_default());
}

/// [`bind_text`] for an `Option<Option<T>>` field, where a flag given without a value is
/// the inner `None`.
#[doc(hidden)]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn bind_optional_text(slot: &mut Option<Vec<u8>>, value: Option<&[u8]>) {
    *slot = value.map(<[u8]>::to_vec);
}

/// [`bind_text`] for a collecting field: one more occurrence, appended.
#[doc(hidden)]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn bind_push_text(slot: &mut Vec<Vec<u8>>, value: Option<&[u8]>) {
    slot.push(value.map(<[u8]>::to_vec).unwrap_or_default());
}

/// [`bind_push_text`] for a field with a value delimiter: every part, appended in order.
#[doc(hidden)]
#[inline(never)]
pub fn bind_push_split(slot: &mut Vec<Vec<u8>>, value: Option<&[u8]>, delimiter: u8) {
    for part in value.unwrap_or_default().split(|b| *b == delimiter) {
        slot.push(part.to_vec());
    }
}

/// A single binding pass over `argv`.
///
/// [`Command::default_subcommand_flags`] adds a read-only lookahead before binding
/// to choose an implicit command boundary.
///
/// Created with [`Parser::new`] and driven with [`Parser::next_event`].
pub struct Parser<'t, 'a, 'v> {
    argv: &'a [&'v OsStr],
    /// Index of the next token to read.
    pos: usize,
    /// The command currently in scope.
    cmd: &'t Command<'t>,
    /// The canonical root, used to hide root globals omitted by an executable view.
    #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
    root: &'t Command<'t>,
    /// The executable projection being parsed, if argv0 selected one.
    #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
    view: Option<&'t spec::ViewMeta<'t>>,
    /// What an unrecognized flag-like token means in the command currently in scope.
    ///
    /// Carried rather than looked up, because it is inherited: a command that states
    /// nothing keeps what the enclosing one said, and walking back up the ancestors on
    /// every unrecognized token would pay for the inheritance at the wrong moment.
    unknown_flags: UnknownFlags,
    /// Effective inherited trailing-delimiter policy.
    dont_delimit_trailing_values: bool,
    /// The chain above `cmd`, used to find inherited global flags. Fixed size so
    /// that nothing is allocated.
    ancestors: [Option<&'t Command<'t>>; MAX_DEPTH],
    depth: usize,
    /// Bytes left in a short-flag bundle, if one is partly read.
    bundle: &'v [u8],
    /// The whole token the current bundle came from, so an error raised part way
    /// through it can still name what the user typed.
    bundle_token: &'v [u8],
    /// A variadic flag that is still collecting values.
    collecting: Option<&'t Flag<'t>>,
    /// Where the command in scope began, as an index into `argv`.
    cmd_start: usize,
    /// Where each ancestor's own words began, in step with `ancestors`.
    starts: [usize; MAX_DEPTH],
    /// How many values it has taken, so a bound can stop it.
    collected: u32,
    /// Which of `cmd.args` is next to fill.
    arg_pos: usize,
    /// How many words the variadic at `arg_pos` has taken, for the same reason.
    arg_taken: u32,
    /// Whether any word has been bound to a positional of `cmd`. Once one has,
    /// no further word can select a subcommand.
    arg_filled: bool,
    /// Whether this command has bound any flag or positional. Unlike
    /// `arg_filled`, flags count because clap's command policy treats both as
    /// arguments that exclude a later subcommand.
    command_arg_found: bool,
    positional_arg_found: bool,
    /// Whether flag interpretation has stopped. A `--` does this, and so does an
    /// `automatic` argument taking a value.
    flags_stopped: bool,
    /// Whether a `--` was actually consumed as a separator.
    ///
    /// Tracked apart from `flags_stopped` because the two can differ: an
    /// `automatic` argument stops flag interpretation without any separator being
    /// typed, and a `preserve` argument keeps one as a value rather than
    /// consuming it. Callers asking this question want to know what the user
    /// wrote, not what state the parser reached.
    separator_seen: bool,
    /// Whether a root clause separator was consumed, so empty-default routing cannot fire.
    clause_separator_seen: bool,
    /// Whether the default subcommand has already been taken.
    ///
    /// Once, per parse: a default subcommand that itself declares one would otherwise
    /// descend on every word until the tree ran out.
    default_taken: bool,
    /// First default-only flag, when lookahead found no explicit sibling.
    default_flag_at: Option<usize>,
    /// Cursor just after the implicit boundary bundle, whose shorts keep parent ownership.
    default_bundle_end: usize,
    /// Set once a fatal error has been reported, so iteration stops.
    done: bool,
    /// Whether declared built-in actions stop parsing with their action error.
    ///
    /// Invocation parsing does; completion walking only needs the grammar position after the
    /// flag, and must not execute an action while inspecting a partial command line.
    action_errors: bool,
    /// The `argv` range the `help` *word* resolved as a command path, if one was typed.
    ///
    /// Empty for `--help`, which asks about wherever the parse had got to. For the word, the
    /// question is about a command deeper than the parse reached, and only this walk knows
    /// which tokens named it: a caller re-scanning `argv` would count a flag's detached value
    /// that happens to spell a sibling's name. Two indices rather than the commands
    /// themselves, so the parser keeps allocating nothing.
    help_span: (usize, usize),
    /// An implicit clause boundary follows the positional event that completed it.
    pending_clause_boundary: ::core::option::Option<&'t Clause<'t>>,
}

impl<'t: 'v, 'a, 'v> Parser<'t, 'a, 'v> {
    /// Begin parsing `argv` against `root`.
    ///
    /// `argv` excludes the program name.
    pub fn new(root: &'t Command<'t>, argv: &'a [&'v OsStr]) -> Self {
        Self::with_action_errors(root, argv, true)
    }

    /// Begin a non-executing parse for completion walking.
    #[cfg(feature = "complete")]
    pub(crate) fn for_completion(root: &'t Command<'t>, argv: &'a [&'v OsStr]) -> Self {
        Self::with_action_errors(root, argv, false)
    }

    fn with_action_errors(
        root: &'t Command<'t>,
        argv: &'a [&'v OsStr],
        action_errors: bool,
    ) -> Self {
        let mut parser = Parser {
            argv,
            pos: 0,
            cmd: root,
            #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
            root,
            #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
            view: None,
            unknown_flags: match root.unknown_flags {
                ::core::option::Option::Some(mode) => mode,
                // Nothing above the root to inherit from, so the default stands.
                ::core::option::Option::None => UnknownFlags::Value,
            },
            dont_delimit_trailing_values: root.dont_delimit_trailing_values,
            ancestors: [None; MAX_DEPTH],
            depth: 0,
            bundle: &[],
            bundle_token: &[],
            collecting: None,
            cmd_start: 0,
            starts: [0; MAX_DEPTH],
            collected: 0,
            arg_pos: 0,
            arg_taken: 0,
            arg_filled: false,
            command_arg_found: false,
            positional_arg_found: false,
            flags_stopped: false,
            separator_seen: false,
            clause_separator_seen: false,
            default_taken: false,
            default_flag_at: None,
            default_bundle_end: 0,
            done: false,
            action_errors,
            help_span: (0, 0),
            pending_clause_boundary: ::core::option::Option::None,
        };
        if root.default_subcommand_flags {
            parser.default_flag_at = parser.default_flag_route();
        }
        parser
    }

    /// Find the implicit boundary without binding anything. Parent spellings win while
    /// scanning the prefix; after the boundary the ordinary child/global scope applies.
    /// Unknown flags stop lookahead because their value arity cannot be guessed.
    fn default_flag_route(&self) -> Option<usize> {
        let default = self.cmd.default_subcommand?;
        let mut at = None;
        let mut i = 0;
        while let Some(token) = self.argv.get(i).map(bytes) {
            let scope = if at.is_some() { default } else { self.cmd };
            if token == b"--"
                || token == b"-"
                || scope.clause.is_some_and(|c| c.separator == Some(token))
            {
                return at;
            }
            if !is_flag_like(token) {
                // A sibling name before any default-only flag stays on the parent.
                // After one, later words are the default command's args (`-u pkg`
                // when `pkg` is also a command).
                if at.is_none()
                    && (self.find_subcommand(token).is_some()
                        || (token == b"help" && !self.cmd.disable_help_subcommand))
                {
                    return None;
                }
                return at;
            }
            let mut value_flag = None;
            let mut attached = None;
            if let Some(body) = token.strip_prefix(b"--") {
                let end = body.iter().position(|b| *b == b'=').unwrap_or(body.len());
                let name = slice::before(body, end);
                let parent = self.find_long(name).or_else(|| self.find_negation(name));
                if parent.is_none()
                    && ((name == b"help" && !self.cmd.disable_help_flag)
                        || (name == b"version"
                            && self.cmd.version
                            && !self.cmd.disable_version_flag))
                {
                    i += 1;
                    continue;
                }
                let flag = parent.or_else(|| {
                    default.flags.iter().copied().find(|f| {
                        f.longs.iter().any(|l| l.as_bytes() == name)
                            || f.negate.is_some_and(|n| n.as_bytes() == name)
                    })
                });
                let Some(flag) = flag else {
                    return at;
                };
                if parent.is_none() {
                    at.get_or_insert(i);
                }
                if flag.takes_value && flag.negate.is_none_or(|n| n.as_bytes() != name) {
                    value_flag = Some(flag);
                    attached = (end < body.len()).then(|| slice::after(body, end + 1));
                }
            } else {
                for (offset, byte) in slice::after(token, 1).iter().enumerate() {
                    let parent = self.find_short(*byte);
                    let Some(flag) = parent.or_else(|| {
                        default
                            .flags
                            .iter()
                            .copied()
                            .find(|f| has_byte(f.shorts, *byte))
                    }) else {
                        return at;
                    };
                    if parent.is_none() {
                        at.get_or_insert(i);
                    }
                    if flag.takes_value {
                        value_flag = Some(flag);
                        let rest = slice::after(token, offset + 2);
                        attached =
                            (!rest.is_empty()).then_some(rest.strip_prefix(b"=").unwrap_or(rest));
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
            i += 1;
            if let Some(flag) = value_flag {
                let scope = if at.is_some() { default } else { self.cmd };
                let is_separator =
                    |next: &[u8]| scope.clause.is_some_and(|c| c.separator == Some(next));
                let first = if let Some(value) = attached {
                    Some(value)
                } else if !flag.require_equals {
                    self.argv
                        .get(i)
                        .map(bytes)
                        .filter(|next| {
                            !is_separator(next)
                                && (flag.allow_hyphen_values
                                    || !is_flag_like(next)
                                    || (flag.allow_negative_numbers && is_negative_number(next)))
                        })
                        .inspect(|_| i += 1)
                } else {
                    None
                };
                if first.is_none() && !flag.value_optional && flag.default_missing.is_none() {
                    return at;
                }
                if flag.variadic {
                    let mut count = first.map_or(0, |v| values_in(v, flag.delimiter));
                    while flag.var_max.is_none_or(|max| count < max) {
                        let Some(next) = self.argv.get(i).map(bytes) else {
                            break;
                        };
                        if is_separator(next) {
                            break;
                        }
                        if next == b"--" || flag.value_terminator.is_some_and(|end| end == next) {
                            if next != b"--" {
                                i += 1;
                            }
                            break;
                        }
                        if is_flag_like(next)
                            && !(flag.allow_negative_numbers && is_negative_number(next))
                        {
                            break;
                        }
                        if self.cmd.subcommand_precedence_over_arg
                            && self.find_subcommand(next).is_some()
                        {
                            break;
                        }
                        count += values_in(next, flag.delimiter);
                        i += 1;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        at
    }

    /// Restrict inherited root globals to those carried by an executable view.
    #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
    pub fn with_view(mut self, view: &'t spec::ViewMeta<'t>) -> Self {
        self.view = Some(view);
        self
    }

    /// The command in scope: the root, or the deepest subcommand selected so far.
    pub fn command(&self) -> &'t Command<'t> {
        self.cmd
    }

    /// Whether a `--` was consumed as a separator.
    ///
    /// False when flag interpretation stopped for another reason, such as an
    /// `automatic` argument taking a value, and false for a `--` that a
    /// `preserve` argument kept as a value.
    pub fn double_dash_seen(&self) -> bool {
        self.separator_seen
    }

    /// Every command entered so far, and where each one's own words begin.
    ///
    /// The ancestors are already kept for flag scoping; this is the same chain with the offsets,
    /// which is what lets a completion hand a callback the words of *its* command rather than of
    /// the deepest one — a global flag is declared on an ancestor.
    pub fn command_path(&self) -> Vec<(&'t Command<'t>, usize)> {
        let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(self.depth + 1);
        for (i, ancestor) in slice::before(&self.ancestors, self.depth)
            .iter()
            .enumerate()
        {
            if let Some(cmd) = ancestor {
                // An ancestor's own words start where the one before it descended, and the
                // root's start at the beginning.
                out.push((*cmd, self.starts[i]));
            }
        }
        out.push((self.cmd, self.cmd_start));
        out
    }

    /// The `argv` range the `help` word resolved as a command path.
    ///
    /// Empty unless the word was typed. Every token in it named a subcommand of the one before
    /// it — the parser resolved them itself, so nothing here is a flag or a flag's value.
    pub fn help_span(&self) -> (usize, usize) {
        self.help_span
    }

    /// Where the command in scope began: the index in `argv` just after its name, or at the
    /// unmatched word routed into a default subcommand.
    ///
    /// `argv[command_start()..]` is what that command was given, which is what a completion
    /// callback needs to be handed its own command's half-parsed struct rather than the root's.
    pub fn command_start(&self) -> usize {
        self.cmd_start
    }

    /// Whether flag interpretation has stopped, for any reason.
    ///
    /// Wider than [`double_dash_seen`](Self::double_dash_seen), and the question completion
    /// asks: past a separator *or* past the first value of an `automatic` argument, a
    /// dash-prefixed word is a value, so there is no flag there to offer.
    pub fn flags_stopped(&self) -> bool {
        self.flags_stopped
    }

    /// A variadic flag that is still claiming words.
    ///
    /// Asked *between* events, because the answer is gone by the end: the call that finds argv
    /// exhausted is the one that clears it. A completion needs it — the next word after
    /// `--tools a ⌶` is another tool, not the positional that follows.
    pub fn collecting(&self) -> Option<&'t Flag<'t>> {
        self.collecting
    }

    /// The positional the next word would fill, if there is one left.
    ///
    /// A variadic stays here until it reaches its bound, which is what makes it the answer to
    /// "what could go where the cursor is" as many times as it can be filled.
    pub fn pending_arg(&self) -> Option<&'t Arg<'t>> {
        self.next_arg()
    }

    /// Flags a word here could name: this command's own, then any ancestor's globals.
    ///
    /// The same set the parser itself would look in, so what is offered and what is accepted
    /// cannot disagree — including the shadowing rule, where a subcommand redeclaring an
    /// inherited name hides it.
    pub fn flags_in_scope(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &'t Flag<'t>> + '_ {
        let mut all = Vec::new();
        self.find_in_scope(Want::All, &mut all);
        all.into_iter()
    }

    /// Read the next event.
    ///
    /// Returns `None` when `argv` is exhausted. An `Err` is terminal: the parse
    /// stops there, since continuing past a token that could not be understood
    /// would only produce bindings derived from a guess. Events already yielded
    /// before an error are therefore not a partial result to be used — a caller
    /// that assigned them into fields should discard the whole attempt.
    ///
    /// One case is stronger than that, because the grammar demands it: a short
    /// bundle containing an unrecognized letter yields the error *instead of*, not
    /// after, the letters that did match.
    #[allow(clippy::should_implement_trait)] // not an Iterator: items borrow from self's tables
    pub fn next_event(&mut self) -> Option<Result<Event<'t, 'a, 'v>, Error<'t, 'v>>> {
        if self.done {
            return None;
        }
        let event = self.step();
        if matches!(event, Some(Ok(Event::Flag { .. } | Event::Arg { .. }))) {
            self.command_arg_found = true;
        }
        if matches!(event, Some(Ok(Event::Arg { .. }))) {
            self.positional_arg_found = true;
        }
        if event.is_none()
            && self.depth == 0
            && self.cmd.default_subcommand_on_empty
            && !self.default_taken
            && !self.positional_arg_found
            && !self.separator_seen
            && !self.clause_separator_seen
            && let Some(default) = self.cmd.default_subcommand
        {
            if self.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands && self.command_arg_found {
                self.done = true;
                return Some(Err(Error::SubcommandConflict {
                    subcommand: default,
                }));
            }
            self.default_taken = true;
            match self.descend(default) {
                Ok(()) => return Some(Ok(Event::Command(default))),
                Err(error) => {
                    self.done = true;
                    return Some(Err(error));
                }
            }
        }
        if let Some(Err(_)) = event {
            self.done = true;
        }
        event
    }

    /// Count parent flags in the shared boundary token before entering the child.
    fn default_bundle_has_parent_flag(&self, default: &Command<'_>) -> bool {
        let Some(token) = self.argv.get(self.pos).map(bytes) else {
            return false;
        };
        if !token.starts_with(b"-") || token.starts_with(b"--") {
            return false;
        }
        for byte in slice::after(token, 1) {
            if self.find_short(*byte).is_some() {
                return true;
            }
            match default.flags.iter().find(|f| has_byte(f.shorts, *byte)) {
                Some(flag) if !flag.takes_value => {}
                _ => break,
            }
        }
        false
    }

    fn step(&mut self) -> Option<Result<Event<'t, 'a, 'v>, Error<'t, 'v>>> {
        if self.default_flag_at == Some(self.pos) && self.bundle.is_empty() {
            self.default_flag_at = None;
            if let Some(default) = self.cmd.default_subcommand {
                if self.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands
                    && (self.command_arg_found || self.default_bundle_has_parent_flag(default))
                {
                    return Some(Err(Error::SubcommandConflict {
                        subcommand: default,
                    }));
                }
                if self.argv.get(self.pos).is_some_and(|word| {
                    let token = bytes(word);
                    token.starts_with(b"-") && !token.starts_with(b"--")
                }) {
                    self.default_bundle_end = self.pos + 1;
                }
                self.default_taken = true;
                return Some(self.descend(default).map(|()| Event::Command(default)));
            }
        }
        if let Some(clause) = self.pending_clause_boundary.take() {
            self.arg_pos = 0;
            self.arg_taken = 0;
            self.arg_filled = false;
            self.collecting = None;
            self.flags_stopped = false;
            return Some(Ok(Event::ClauseSeparator { clause: *clause }));
        }
        // A partly-read short bundle takes priority: its remaining bytes are
        // still part of the token being processed.
        if !self.bundle.is_empty() {
            return Some(self.short_flag());
        }

        if self.cmd.subcommand_precedence_over_arg
            && !self.flags_stopped
            && let Some(token) = self.argv.get(self.pos).map(bytes)
            && let Some(sub) = self.find_subcommand(token)
        {
            if self.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands && self.command_arg_found {
                return Some(Err(Error::SubcommandConflict { subcommand: sub }));
            }
            self.pos += 1;
            return Some(self.descend(sub).map(|()| Event::Command(sub)));
        }

        // A variadic flag keeps claiming tokens until one of them could be
        // something else.
        if let Some(flag) = self.collecting {
            match self.argv.get(self.pos) {
                Some(next)
                    if flag
                        .value_terminator
                        .is_some_and(|terminator| bytes(next) == terminator) =>
                {
                    self.pos += 1;
                    self.collecting = None;
                    return self.step();
                }
                Some(next)
                    if (!is_flag_like(bytes(next))
                        || (flag.allow_negative_numbers && is_negative_number(bytes(next))))
                        && self.clause_separator(bytes(next)).is_none()
                        && bytes(next) != b"--" =>
                {
                    self.pos += 1;
                    self.collected += values_in(bytes(next), flag.delimiter);
                    // Same rule as a positional: a bounded occurrence takes that many and
                    // leaves the rest to whatever follows.
                    if flag.var_max.is_some_and(|max| self.collected >= max) {
                        self.collecting = None;
                    }
                    // Stopping is only the same as staying within the bound while one word
                    // is one value. A delimited word can carry the occurrence past it in a
                    // single step, and that word cannot be split between two owners, so the
                    // overshoot is an error rather than a place to stop.
                    if let Some(max) = flag.var_max.filter(|max| self.collected > *max) {
                        return Some(Err(Error::VarTooMany {
                            name: flag.name,
                            max: max as usize,
                            got: self.collected as usize,
                        }));
                    }
                    return Some(Ok(Event::Flag {
                        flag,
                        value: Some(bytes(next)),
                        negated: false,
                    }));
                }
                // A token that could be something else ends the run — but the *end of argv*
                // decides nothing. Clearing there threw away the answer to "would the next
                // word be claimed?", which is the question a completion asks and no parse
                // ever does: once argv is exhausted there are no more events either way.
                Some(_) => self.collecting = None,
                None => {}
            }
        }

        let token = bytes(self.argv.get(self.pos)?);
        self.pos += 1;

        // A clause separator remains syntax after an automatic positional stopped flags.
        // Only an explicit `--` protects a literal separator.
        if let Some(clause) = self.clause_separator(token) {
            self.arg_pos = 0;
            self.arg_taken = 0;
            self.arg_filled = false;
            self.collecting = None;
            self.flags_stopped = false;
            if self.depth == 0 {
                self.clause_separator_seen = true;
            }
            return Some(Ok(Event::ClauseSeparator { clause: *clause }));
        }

        // An automatic trailing argument stops flag interpretation without consuming an
        // explicit separator. A later `--` must still unlock a required trailing argument
        // (clap's `last`), while a separator already consumed makes every later `--` data.
        if self.flags_stopped && (token != b"--" || self.separator_seen) {
            return Some(self.word(token));
        }

        if token == b"--" {
            // `preserve` wants the separator itself as a value, so ask the
            // argument that would receive it before treating it as syntax.
            if self
                .next_arg()
                .is_some_and(|a| a.double_dash == DoubleDash::Preserve)
            {
                return Some(self.word(token));
            }
            self.flags_stopped = true;
            self.separator_seen = true;
            // An explicit separator unlocks any argument that required one, even
            // if earlier arguments are still unfilled.
            if let Some(idx) = slice::after(self.current_args(), self.arg_pos)
                .iter()
                .position(|a| a.double_dash == DoubleDash::Required)
            {
                // The count belongs to the argument at `arg_pos`, so jumping past it has
                // to leave the count behind: a bounded variadic before the separator would
                // otherwise lend its total to the argument after it, which then stops
                // early or at once.
                self.arg_pos += idx;
                self.arg_taken = 0;
            }
            return self.step();
        }

        if self.arg_taken > 0
            && self.next_arg().is_some_and(|arg| {
                arg.value_terminator
                    .is_some_and(|terminator| token == terminator)
            })
        {
            self.advance_arg();
            return self.step();
        }

        // An exact declared short outranks the numeric shape. This keeps ordinary negative
        // numbers available as values while allowing clap-compatible spellings such as fd's
        // `-0` / `--print0` switch.
        let declared_numeric_short = matches!(token, [b'-', short]
            if short.is_ascii_digit() && self.find_short(*short).is_some());

        if !declared_numeric_short
            && is_negative_number(token)
            && self
                .next_arg()
                .is_some_and(|arg| arg.allow_negative_numbers)
        {
            return Some(self.word(token));
        }

        if !declared_numeric_short
            && is_negative_number(token)
            && self.cmd.external_subcommand
            && !self.arg_filled
        {
            return Some(self.word(token));
        }

        if is_flag_like(token) {
            if token.starts_with(b"--") {
                return Some(self.long_flag(token));
            }
            // Check the whole bundle before emitting anything from it. Events go
            // out one at a time, so discovering an unknown letter half way
            // through would mean the earlier letters had already been applied —
            // and the grammar rejects the entire token, not the tail of it.
            match self.check_bundle(token) {
                Ok(()) => {}
                // Unrecognized, so it is a word unless this command wants it refused.
                Err(e) if self.unknown_flags == UnknownFlags::Error => {
                    return Some(Err(e));
                }
                Err(_) => return Some(self.word(token)),
            }
            self.bundle = slice::after(token, 1);
            self.bundle_token = token;
            return Some(self.short_flag());
        }

        Some(self.word(token))
    }

    fn long_flag(&mut self, token: &'v [u8]) -> Result<Event<'t, 'a, 'v>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
        let body = slice::after(token, 2);
        let (name, attached) = match body.iter().position(|&b| b == b'=') {
            Some(i) => (slice::before(body, i), Some(slice::after(body, i + 1))),
            None => (body, None),
        };

        if let Some(flag) = self.find_long(name) {
            let value = if flag.takes_value {
                match attached {
                    Some(v) => Some(v),
                    None => self.take_detached_value(flag)?,
                }
            } else if flag.bool_value {
                validate_bool_value(flag, attached)?
            } else {
                None
            };
            if flag.variadic
                && let Some(value) = value
            {
                self.start_collecting(flag, value)?;
            }
            if let Some(error) = self.flag_action(flag, true) {
                return Err(error);
            }
            return Ok(Event::Flag {
                flag,
                value,
                negated: false,
            });
        }

        if let Some(flag) = self.find_negation(name) {
            return Ok(Event::Flag {
                flag,
                value: if flag.bool_value {
                    validate_bool_value(flag, attached)?
                } else {
                    None
                },
                negated: true,
            });
        }

        // Where the CLI declared a version, `--version` answers with it — asked after the
        // command's own flags, so a CLI declaring its own keeps it.
        let version_command = self.version_command();
        if name == b"version" && version_command.version && !version_command.disable_version_flag {
            return Ok(Event::Flag {
                flag: &VERSION_LONG,
                value: None,
                negated: false,
            });
        }

        // Every CLI answers to `--help`, and none of them declares it. Asked *after* the
        // command's own flags, so a CLI that declares its own `--help` keeps it.
        if name == b"help" && !self.cmd.disable_help_flag {
            return Ok(Event::Flag {
                flag: &HELP_LONG,
                value: None,
                negated: false,
            });
        }

        if self.unknown_flags == UnknownFlags::Error {
            return Err(Error::UnknownFlag { token });
        }
        // Not a flag here, so it is a word like any other.
        self.word(token)
    }

    /// Walk a short-flag token without binding anything, to find out whether all
    /// of it is recognized.
    ///
    /// Scanning stops at the first letter whose flag takes a value, because
    /// everything after it is that value rather than more letters.
    fn check_bundle(&self, token: &'v [u8]) -> Result<(), Error<'t, 'v>> {
        let mut rest = slice::after(token, 1);
        while let Some((&byte, tail)) = rest.split_first() {
            match self.find_short(byte) {
                None => return Err(Error::UnknownFlag { token }),
                Some(flag) if flag.takes_value => return Ok(()),
                Some(_) => rest = tail,
            }
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    fn short_flag(&mut self) -> Result<Event<'t, 'a, 'v>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
        let (byte, rest) = match self.bundle.split_first() {
            Some((&byte, rest)) => (byte, rest),
            None => (0, &[][..]),
        };

        let Some(flag) = self.find_short(byte) else {
            // check_bundle already rejected any token containing an unrecognized
            // letter, so this is unreachable — but a parser should report rather
            // than panic if that ever stops being true.
            self.bundle = &[];
            return Err(Error::UnknownFlag {
                token: self.bundle_token,
            });
        };

        if !flag.takes_value {
            self.bundle = rest;
            if let Some(error) = self.flag_action(flag, false) {
                self.bundle = &[];
                return Err(error);
            }
            return Ok(Event::Flag {
                flag,
                value: None,
                negated: false,
            });
        }

        // A value-taking short ends the token: everything after it is the value,
        // less one separating `=`.
        self.bundle = &[];
        let value = match rest.split_first() {
            None => self.take_detached_value(flag)?,
            Some((b'=', value)) => Some(value),
            Some(_) => Some(rest),
        };
        if flag.variadic
            && let Some(value) = value
        {
            self.start_collecting(flag, value)?;
        }
        if let Some(error) = self.flag_action(flag, false) {
            return Err(error);
        }
        Ok(Event::Flag {
            flag,
            value,
            negated: false,
        })
    }

    #[inline(never)]
    fn flag_action(&self, flag: &'t Flag<'t>, long_spelling: bool) -> Option<Error<'t, 'v>> {
        if matches!(
            flag.key,
            HELP_LONG_KEY | HELP_SHORT_KEY | VERSION_LONG_KEY | VERSION_SHORT_KEY
        ) || !self.action_errors
        {
            return None;
        }
        match flag.action {
            ArgAction::Set => None,
            ArgAction::Help => Some(Error::Help {
                cmd: self.cmd,
                long: long_spelling,
            }),
            ArgAction::HelpShort => Some(Error::Help {
                cmd: self.cmd,
                long: false,
            }),
            ArgAction::HelpLong => Some(Error::Help {
                cmd: self.cmd,
                long: true,
            }),
            ArgAction::HelpAll => Some(Error::HelpAll { cmd: self.cmd }),
            ArgAction::Version => Some(Error::Version {
                long: long_spelling,
            }),
        }
    }

    /// Take the following token as a flag's value.
    ///
    /// Refuses a flag-like token unless [`Flag::allow_hyphen_values`] is set:
    /// `--jobs --force` is far more likely a forgotten value than a deliberate
    /// one, and the attached form is available for the deliberate case. Declared,
    /// the next token is taken whatever it looks like, including `--`.
    fn take_detached_value(
        &mut self,
        flag: &'t Flag<'t>,
    ) -> Result<Option<&'v [u8]>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
        if flag.require_equals {
            return self.missing_or_default(flag);
        }
        match self.argv.get(self.pos) {
            Some(next)
                if self.clause_separator(bytes(next)).is_none()
                    && (flag.allow_hyphen_values
                        || !is_flag_like(bytes(next))
                        || (flag.allow_negative_numbers && is_negative_number(bytes(next)))) =>
            {
                self.pos += 1;
                Ok(Some(bytes(next)))
            }
            _ => self.missing_or_default(flag),
        }
    }

    fn missing_or_default(&self, flag: &'t Flag<'t>) -> Result<Option<&'v [u8]>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
        match flag.default_missing {
            Some(value) => Ok(Some(value)),
            None if flag.value_optional => Ok(None),
            None => Err(Error::MissingFlagValue { flag }),
        }
    }

    #[inline(never)]
    fn clause_separator(&self, token: &[u8]) -> Option<&'t Clause<'t>> {
        (!self.separator_seen)
            .then_some(self.cmd.clause)
            .flatten()
            .filter(|clause| clause.separator.is_some_and(|separator| token == separator))
    }

    fn word(&mut self, token: &'v [u8]) -> Result<Event<'t, 'a, 'v>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
        // Subcommands are only matched where descent is still possible: once a
        // positional of this command has taken a word, a later word that happens
        // to equal a subcommand name is just a value.
        if !self.arg_filled && !self.flags_stopped {
            if let Some(sub) = self.find_subcommand(token) {
                if self.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands && self.command_arg_found {
                    return Err(Error::SubcommandConflict { subcommand: sub });
                }
                self.descend(sub)?;
                return Ok(Event::Command(sub));
            }

            // `ex help config ls` — the line every page with a Commands section has printed
            // all along ("help  Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)"),
            // and which until now did nothing. The page is what decides the condition here:
            // it prints that line where there are subcommands, so that is where the word is
            // answered, and to a leaf `help` is a word like any other.
            //
            // Asked *after* the subcommand lookup, so a CLI that declares a `help` of its own
            // keeps it — the same rule the two help flags follow.
            //
            // The words after it name a command, resolved here rather than descended into:
            // descending would bind them, and they are a question rather than an invocation.
            if token == b"help"
                && !self.cmd.disable_help_subcommand
                && !self.cmd.subcommands.is_empty()
            {
                let mut cmd = self.cmd;
                let from = self.pos;
                while let Some(next) = self.argv.get(self.pos) {
                    let Some(sub) = find_named(cmd, bytes(next)) else {
                        break;
                    };
                    cmd = sub;
                    self.pos += 1;
                }
                // Kept for `help::route_to`: which mount was asked about is not recoverable
                // from `cmd`, since two mounts of one `Subcommands` type are one address.
                self.help_span = (from, self.pos);
                // The long form, as `ex config --help` gives: someone who typed a whole word to
                // ask for help wants the fuller answer.
                return Err(Error::Help { cmd, long: true });
            }

            // A word that names no subcommand goes to the default one, if there is one.
            //
            // Only a word, though. A dash-prefixed token that named no flag arrives here as a
            // value — that is what `unknown_flags = value` means — and it was never a
            // candidate to *select* anything, so it binds where it was typed. usage-lib stops
            // looking for subcommands at an unrecognised flag for the same reason. `--` is
            // excluded on the same grounds: it reaches this function only when a `preserve`
            // argument wants it as a value.
            //
            // The token is *not* consumed: the cursor steps back so the next event reads it
            // again, now against the command just descended into. That is what lets it be a
            // subcommand of the default (`mise build` where `build` is a task the mount
            // added) as easily as an argument of it, without this function having to decide
            // which — and without yielding two events for one word.
            if let Some(default) = self.cmd.default_subcommand {
                // `-` joins `--` in being excluded, and for the reason already written above:
                // a value was never a candidate to *select* anything. `is_flag_like` calls a
                // lone `-` a value — conventionally stdin — so it passed this guard and
                // descended, where mise's `run` has no positional and the parse failed.
                // usage-lib and clap both bind it to the root's own `[TASK]` instead.
                let default_accepts_negative = is_negative_number(token)
                    && default
                        .args
                        .first()
                        .is_some_and(|arg| arg.allow_negative_numbers);
                if !self.default_taken
                    && (!is_flag_like(token) || default_accepts_negative)
                    && token != b"--"
                    && token != b"-"
                {
                    self.default_taken = true;
                    self.descend(default)?;
                    self.pos -= 1;
                    // Unlike an explicitly named command, the default command receives the
                    // word that caused descent. Keep its argv boundary at that word so
                    // command-level policies and completion callbacks see the same input the
                    // command parser is about to re-read.
                    self.cmd_start = self.pos;
                    return Ok(Event::Command(default));
                }
            }

            // Known subcommands and the default route keep precedence. A sigil positional
            // then claims its classified word before an external-subcommand catch-all can.
            if let Some((arg, sigil)) = self.match_sigil_arg(token) {
                if token.len() == sigil.len() {
                    return Err(sigil_without_value(arg, token, sigil));
                }
                return Ok(Event::Arg {
                    arg,
                    value: slice::after(token, sigil.len()),
                    delimit: true,
                });
            }

            // An unmatched word that names no subcommand is forwarded as an external
            // command: this word, then every token after it, including flags. Known
            // subcommands already won above, and a default_subcommand already caught.
            if self.cmd.external_subcommand
                && (!is_flag_like(token) || is_negative_number(token))
                && token != b"--"
                && token != b"-"
            {
                let from = self.pos - 1;
                self.pos = self.argv.len();
                return Ok(Event::External {
                    values: slice::after(self.argv, from),
                });
            }
        }

        if self.arg_filled
            && !self.flags_stopped
            && let Some((arg, sigil)) = self.match_sigil_arg(token)
        {
            if token.len() == sigil.len() {
                return Err(sigil_without_value(arg, token, sigil));
            }
            return Ok(Event::Arg {
                arg,
                value: slice::after(token, sigil.len()),
                delimit: true,
            });
        }

        self.skip_sigil_args();
        self.reserve_for_required_positionals();
        let Some(arg) = self.next_arg() else {
            return Err(Error::UnexpectedArg { token });
        };

        if arg.double_dash == DoubleDash::Required && !self.separator_seen {
            return Err(Error::ArgRequiresDoubleDash { arg });
        }

        self.arg_filled = true;
        // An `automatic` argument stops flag interpretation from here on, as
        // though the caller had typed the separator themselves.
        let trailing_value = self.separator_seen || arg.double_dash == DoubleDash::Automatic;
        let delimit = !(self.dont_delimit_trailing_values && trailing_value);
        if arg.double_dash == DoubleDash::Automatic {
            self.flags_stopped = true;
        }
        // A variadic keeps taking values, so the cursor stays put — until it reaches its
        // bound, at which point the words after it belong to whatever comes next. That is
        // what makes `[a]… [b]` expressible at all.
        if arg.var {
            self.arg_taken += values_in(token, delimit.then_some(arg.delimiter).flatten());
            // Before advancing, which resets the count: as with a variadic flag, reaching
            // the bound and passing it are the same event once a word can carry several
            // values, and only the second is a mistake.
            if let Some(max) = arg.var_max.filter(|max| self.arg_taken > *max) {
                return Err(Error::VarTooMany {
                    name: arg.name,
                    max: max as usize,
                    got: self.arg_taken as usize,
                });
            }
            if arg.var_max.is_some_and(|max| self.arg_taken >= max) {
                self.advance_arg();
            }
        } else {
            self.advance_arg();
        }
        if self
            .cmd
            .clause
            .is_some_and(|clause| clause.separator.is_none() && self.next_arg().is_none())
        {
            self.pending_clause_boundary = self.cmd.clause;
        }
        Ok(Event::Arg {
            arg,
            value: token,
            delimit,
        })
    }

    #[inline(never)]
    fn descend(&mut self, sub: &'t Command<'t>) -> Result<(), Error<'t, 'v>> {
        if self.depth >= MAX_DEPTH {
            return Err(Error::TooDeep);
        }
        self.ancestors[self.depth] = Some(self.cmd);
        self.starts[self.depth] = self.cmd_start;
        self.depth += 1;
        self.cmd = sub;
        // Only a command that says something changes it, which is what inheriting means.
        if let ::core::option::Option::Some(mode) = sub.unknown_flags {
            self.unknown_flags = mode;
        }
        self.dont_delimit_trailing_values |= sub.dont_delimit_trailing_values;
        // Where this command's own words start, which is what lets a completion hand a callback
        // the half-parsed struct of the command it was declared on rather than of the root.
        self.cmd_start = self.pos;
        self.arg_pos = 0;
        self.arg_taken = 0;
        self.arg_filled = false;
        self.command_arg_found = false;
        Ok(())
    }

    /// Move to the next positional, forgetting what the last one took.
    #[inline(never)]
    fn advance_arg(&mut self) {
        self.skip_sigil_args();
        self.arg_pos += 1;
        self.arg_taken = 0;
        self.skip_sigil_args();
    }

    /// A variadic flag occurrence begins, counting from zero.
    ///
    /// The value it was given on the same token counts, which is why this starts at what
    /// that value holds: `--include a b` with `var_max=2` takes `a` and `b`, not three
    /// words — and `--include a,b` has already taken both on the one token.
    #[inline(never)]
    fn start_collecting(&mut self, flag: &'t Flag<'t>, first: &[u8]) -> Result<(), Error<'t, 'v>> {
        self.collected = values_in(first, flag.delimiter);
        if let Some(max) = flag.var_max.filter(|max| self.collected > *max) {
            return Err(Error::VarTooMany {
                name: flag.name,
                max: max as usize,
                got: self.collected as usize,
            });
        }
        self.collecting = if flag.var_max.is_some_and(|max| self.collected >= max) {
            None
        } else {
            Some(flag)
        };
        Ok(())
    }

    #[inline(never)]
    fn next_arg(&self) -> Option<&'t Arg<'t>> {
        slice::after(self.current_args(), self.arg_pos)
            .iter()
            .find(|arg| arg.sigil.is_none())
            .copied()
    }

    fn skip_sigil_args(&mut self) {
        while self
            .current_args()
            .get(self.arg_pos)
            .is_some_and(|arg| arg.sigil.is_some())
        {
            self.arg_pos += 1;
        }
    }

    fn match_sigil_arg(&self, token: &[u8]) -> Option<(&'t Arg<'t>, &'t [u8])> {
        if self.flags_stopped {
            return None;
        }
        // The longest sigil that fits, the later declaration winning a tie, as `max_by_key`
        // would say — written as loops, which are smaller than the adapter chain and are
        // walked for every positional word.
        let mut best: Option<(&'t Arg<'t>, &'t [u8])> = None;
        let mut consider = |args: &'t [&'t Arg<'t>]| {
            for &arg in args {
                if let Some(sigil) = arg.sigil
                    && token.starts_with(sigil)
                    && best.is_none_or(|(_, longest)| sigil.len() >= longest.len())
                {
                    best = Some((arg, sigil));
                }
            }
        };
        consider(self.current_args());
        for cmd in slice::before(&self.ancestors, self.depth)
            .iter()
            .rev()
            .flatten()
        {
            consider(cmd.args);
        }
        best
    }

    fn current_args(&self) -> &'t [&'t Arg<'t>] {
        self.cmd
            .clause
            .map(|clause| clause.args)
            .unwrap_or(self.cmd.args)
    }

    /// Skip empty optional positionals when every remaining value is needed by a later
    /// required positional. This is clap's opt-in `allow_missing_positional` policy.
    fn reserve_for_required_positionals(&mut self) {
        if !self.cmd.allow_missing_positional || self.arg_taken != 0 {
            return;
        }
        loop {
            let Some(current) = self.next_arg() else {
                return;
            };
            if current.required {
                return;
            }
            let required_after = slice::after(self.current_args(), self.arg_pos + 1)
                .iter()
                .filter(|arg| arg.required && arg.sigil.is_none())
                .count();
            if required_after == 0 {
                return;
            }
            let remaining_values = 1 + slice::after(self.argv, self.pos)
                .iter()
                .filter(|word| {
                    (self.flags_stopped || !is_flag_like(bytes(word)))
                        && self.match_sigil_arg(bytes(word)).is_none()
                })
                .count();
            if remaining_values > required_after {
                return;
            }
            self.advance_arg();
        }
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
    fn view_allows_own_flag(&self, flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
        match self.view {
            None => true,
            // The promoted command keeps its own surface. While the injected path is
            // still at the host root, however, only explicitly carried globals belong
            // to the view; root-local flags are not part of the projected executable.
            Some(view) => {
                !core::ptr::eq(self.cmd, self.root) || is_version_flag(flag) || view.carries(flag)
            }
        }
    }

    #[cfg(not(feature = "spec"))]
    fn view_allows_own_flag(&self, _flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
        true
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
    fn view_allows_inherited_flag(&self, flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
        match self.view {
            None => true,
            // A portable view carries selected host globals, not globals declared
            // by intermediate commands on a multi-segment promoted path.
            Some(view) => {
                self.root
                    .flags
                    .iter()
                    .any(|root| core::ptr::eq(*root, flag))
                    && (is_version_flag(flag) || view.carries(flag))
            }
        }
    }

    #[cfg(not(feature = "spec"))]
    fn view_allows_inherited_flag(&self, _flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
        true
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
    fn inherited_flag_is_in_scope(&self, flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
        flag.global || (self.view.is_some() && is_version_flag(flag))
    }

    #[cfg(not(feature = "spec"))]
    fn inherited_flag_is_in_scope(&self, flag: &Flag<'_>) -> bool {
        flag.global
    }

    /// Walk the flags in scope: this command's own, then any ancestor's globals.
    ///
    /// Own flags come first so that a subcommand redeclaring an inherited name
    /// shadows it, which is what mise relies on when it redeclares root globals
    /// on `run` with different shorts.
    ///
    /// The first flag that answers to `want`, or none; with [`Want::All`] every flag in scope
    /// is appended to `all` instead. One loop for the three ways a flag is looked up and for
    /// listing them, rather than an iterator chain compiled once per use: a chain of filters
    /// and a flat map inlined at each lookup was the larger part of what a lookup cost in code.
    /// What is matched is a branch on a value the loop does not change.
    #[inline(never)]
    fn find_in_scope(&self, want: Want<'_>, all: &mut Vec<&'t Flag<'t>>) -> Option<&'t Flag<'t>> {
        for &flag in self.cmd.flags {
            if self.view_allows_own_flag(flag) && visit(want, all, flag) {
                return Some(flag);
            }
        }
        for ancestor in slice::before(&self.ancestors, self.depth)
            .iter()
            .rev()
            .flatten()
        {
            for &flag in ancestor.flags {
                if self.inherited_flag_is_in_scope(flag)
                    && self.view_allows_inherited_flag(flag)
                    && visit(want, all, flag)
                {
                    return Some(flag);
                }
            }
        }
        None
    }

    fn find_long(&self, name: &[u8]) -> Option<&'t Flag<'t>> {
        self.find_in_scope(Want::Long(name), &mut Vec::new())
    }

    fn find_negation(&self, name: &[u8]) -> Option<&'t Flag<'t>> {
        self.find_in_scope(Want::Negation(name), &mut Vec::new())
    }

    fn find_short(&self, byte: u8) -> Option<&'t Flag<'t>> {
        // Only the boundary token is shared. Later tokens use ordinary child/global scope.
        if self.default_taken
            && self.pos == self.default_bundle_end
            && let Some(flag) = self.ancestors[0].and_then(|parent| {
                parent
                    .flags
                    .iter()
                    .copied()
                    .find(|f| has_byte(f.shorts, byte))
            })
        {
            return Some(flag);
        }
        self.find_in_scope(Want::Short(byte), &mut Vec::new())
            // As for `--help`: supplied by the parser, and only where the command has not
            // declared a `-h` of its own.
            .or(if byte == b'h' && !self.cmd.disable_help_flag {
                Some(&HELP_SHORT)
            } else if byte == b'V'
                && self.version_command().version
                && !self.version_command().disable_version_flag
            {
                Some(&VERSION_SHORT)
            } else {
                None
            })
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "spec")]
    fn version_command(&self) -> &'t Command<'t> {
        if self.view.is_some() {
            self.root
        } else {
            self.cmd
        }
    }

    #[cfg(not(feature = "spec"))]
    fn version_command(&self) -> &'t Command<'t> {
        self.cmd
    }

    fn find_subcommand(&self, name: &[u8]) -> Option<&'t Command<'t>> {
        // Shared with `help` rather than spelled out again, so descending into a command and
        // asking about one cannot drift apart.
        find_named(self.cmd, name)
    }
}

/// One flag met on a walk of the flags in scope: whether it answers to `want`, or, for
/// [`Want::All`], noted in `all`. Always inlined, so that the walk's loop carries the test itself
/// and not a call to it for every flag.
#[inline(always)]
fn visit<'t>(want: Want<'_>, all: &mut Vec<&'t Flag<'t>>, f: &'t Flag<'t>) -> bool {
    match want {
        Want::Long(name) => f.longs.iter().any(|l| l.as_bytes() == name),
        Want::Negation(name) => f.negate.is_some_and(|n| n.as_bytes() == name),
        Want::Short(byte) => has_byte(f.shorts, byte),
        Want::All => {
            all.push(f);
            false
        }
    }
}

/// What a walk of the flags in scope is for: a long spelling, a negation, a short letter, or all.
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
enum Want<'a> {
    Long(&'a [u8]),
    Negation(&'a [u8]),
    Short(u8),
    All,
}

/// Whether `bytes` holds `wanted`.
///
/// A loop of its own rather than `<[u8]>::contains`, which expands at each call to a
/// word-at-a-time search tuned for long slices. A flag has one or two short letters.
#[inline]
pub(crate) fn has_byte(bytes: &[u8], wanted: u8) -> bool {
    for &byte in bytes {
        if byte == wanted {
            return true;
        }
    }
    false
}

/// Whether `list` holds the name `wanted`. One copy for every place a table of names is searched:
/// `<[&str]>::contains` expands to its own comparison loop at each of them.
#[cfg(any(feature = "complete", feature = "diagnostics"))]
#[inline(never)]
pub(crate) fn has_str(list: &[&str], wanted: &str) -> bool {
    for item in list {
        if *item == wanted {
            return true;
        }
    }
    false
}

/// View a token as bytes.
///
/// `as_encoded_bytes` is a plain accessor with no conversion and no allocation.
/// The reverse direction is the one with a cost — see [`os_string_from_bytes`] —
/// which is why values come back as bytes.
fn bytes<'v>(s: &&'v OsStr) -> &'v [u8] {
    s.as_encoded_bytes()
}

/// How many values one word carries.
///
/// One, until a delimiter is declared — and then one per separator, counting the same way
/// splitting on it does: `a,b` is two, `a,` is two with an empty second, and `` is one.
/// Counted rather than split because binding only needs the number, and the split itself
/// belongs to the layer that owns the values.
#[inline]
fn values_in(word: &[u8], delimiter: ::core::option::Option<u8>) -> u32 {
    match delimiter {
        Some(d) => values_delimited(word, d),
        None => 1,
    }
}

/// [`values_in`] for a word that has a delimiter to count. Out of line: counting bytes is a loop
/// the optimizer widens into vector code, and inlined at each of the places a word is bound it
/// was most of what they weighed.
#[inline(never)]
fn values_delimited(word: &[u8], delimiter: u8) -> u32 {
    1 + word.iter().filter(|b| **b == delimiter).count() as u32
}

/// Whether a token should be read as a flag.
///
/// `-` alone is a value, conventionally stdin. Other dash-prefixed tokens are
/// flag-like; a field may make the narrower negative-number exception.
fn is_flag_like(token: &[u8]) -> bool {
    matches!(token, [b'-', rest @ ..] if !rest.is_empty())
}

fn is_negative_number(token: &[u8]) -> bool {
    token.strip_prefix(b"-").is_some_and(is_number)
}

/// Whether the text after a `-` is a number, so `-1`, `-2.5`, and `-1e5` are values
/// while `-1x` is a flag-shaped token that names nothing.
///
/// Digits, at most one `.`, and an optional exponent. Deliberately narrower than
/// `f64::from_str`, which also accepts `inf` and `NaN` — `-inf` is far likelier to be
/// a misspelled flag than a number somebody meant to pass.
///
/// usage-lib applies the same rule, and the corpus pins the edges so the two cannot
/// drift apart: they disagreed about `-1e5` when this was a hand-rolled scanner on
/// one side and a float parse on the other.
///
/// Written out rather than deferred to `f64::from_str` because this runs on the hot
/// path, and a parse would mean a UTF-8 check on a slice already decided by its
/// bytes.
#[inline(never)]
fn is_number(rest: &[u8]) -> bool {
    // One pass: the mantissa's digits and at most one dot, then an optional exponent.
    let mut at = 0;
    let mut digits = 0;
    let mut seen_dot = false;
    while let Some(&b) = rest.get(at) {
        if b.is_ascii_digit() {
            digits += 1;
        } else if b == b'.' && !seen_dot {
            seen_dot = true;
        } else {
            break;
        }
        at += 1;
    }
    if digits == 0 {
        return false;
    }
    let Some(&marker) = rest.get(at) else {
        return true;
    };
    if marker != b'e' && marker != b'E' {
        return false;
    }
    // An exponent needs digits of its own, and may carry a sign.
    let mut exponent = slice::after(rest, at + 1);
    if let [b'+' | b'-', tail @ ..] = exponent {
        exponent = tail;
    }
    if exponent.is_empty() {
        return false;
    }
    for b in exponent {
        if !b.is_ascii_digit() {
            return false;
        }
    }
    true
}

fn validate_bool_value<'t, 'v>(
    flag: &'t Flag<'t>,
    value: Option<&'v [u8]>,
) -> Result<Option<&'v [u8]>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
    match value {
        None | Some(b"true" | b"false") => Ok(value),
        Some(_) => Err(Error::InvalidChoice {
            name: flag.name,
            choices: &["true", "false"],
        }),
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn clause_separator_resets_inner_args_and_survives_automatic_mode() {
        static TASK: Arg = Arg {
            key: 91,
            name: "task",
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static REST: Arg = Arg {
            key: 92,
            name: "args",
            double_dash: DoubleDash::Automatic,
            ..Arg::VAR
        };
        static ROOT: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            clause: Some(&Clause {
                key: 90,
                name: "tasks",
                separator: Some(b":::"),
                flags: &[],
                args: &[&TASK, &REST],
            }),
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let argv = [
            OsStr::new("lint"),
            OsStr::new("--fix"),
            OsStr::new(":::"),
            OsStr::new("test"),
        ];
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&ROOT, &argv);
        let mut seen = Vec::new();
        while let Some(event) = parser.next_event() {
            match event.expect("valid clause") {
                Event::Arg { arg, value, .. } => {
                    seen.push((arg.name, String::from_utf8_lossy(value).into_owned()))
                }
                Event::ClauseSeparator { clause } => seen.push((clause.name, ":::".into())),
                _ => {}
            }
        }
        assert_eq!(
            seen,
            [
                ("task", "lint".into()),
                ("args", "--fix".into()),
                ("tasks", ":::".into()),
                ("task", "test".into())
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn clause_separator_is_not_a_scoped_flag_value() {
        static POSTINSTALL: Flag = Flag {
            key: 93,
            name: "postinstall",
            longs: &["postinstall"],
            takes_value: true,
            variadic: true,
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static TOOL: Arg = Arg {
            key: 94,
            name: "tool",
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static ROOT: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&POSTINSTALL],
            clause: Some(&Clause {
                key: 95,
                name: "tools",
                separator: Some(b":::"),
                flags: &[&POSTINSTALL],
                args: &[&TOOL],
            }),
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let argv = [OsStr::new("--postinstall"), OsStr::new(":::")];
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&ROOT, &argv);
        assert!(matches!(
            parser.next_event(),
            Some(Err(Error::MissingFlagValue { flag })) if flag.key == POSTINSTALL.key
        ));

        let argv = [
            OsStr::new("--postinstall"),
            OsStr::new("setup"),
            OsStr::new(":::"),
            OsStr::new("tool"),
        ];
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&ROOT, &argv);
        assert!(matches!(
            parser.next_event(),
            Some(Ok(Event::Flag {
                value: Some(b"setup"),
                ..
            }))
        ));
        assert!(matches!(
            parser.next_event(),
            Some(Ok(Event::ClauseSeparator { clause })) if clause.key == 95
        ));
        assert!(matches!(
            parser.next_event(),
            Some(Ok(Event::Arg { value: b"tool", .. }))
        ));
    }

    static FORCE: Flag = Flag {
        key: 1,
        longs: &["force"],
        shorts: b"f",
        ..Flag::BOOL
    };
    static EXPLICIT_BOOL: Flag = Flag {
        key: 20,
        name: "color",
        longs: &["color"],
        negate: Some("no-color"),
        bool_value: true,
        ..Flag::BOOL
    };
    static EXPLICIT_BOOL_ROOT: Command = Command {
        name: "ex",
        flags: &[&EXPLICIT_BOOL],
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    static JOBS: Flag = Flag {
        key: 2,
        longs: &["jobs"],
        shorts: b"j",
        allow_negative_numbers: true,
        ..Flag::VALUE
    };
    static COLOR: Flag = Flag {
        key: 3,
        longs: &["color"],
        negate: Some("no-color"),
        ..Flag::BOOL
    };
    static VERBOSE: Flag = Flag {
        key: 4,
        longs: &["verbose"],
        shorts: b"v",
        global: true,
        ..Flag::BOOL
    };
    static FILE: Arg = Arg {
        key: 10,
        name: "file",
        allow_negative_numbers: true,
        ..Arg::REQUIRED
    };
    static REST: Arg = Arg {
        key: 11,
        name: "rest",
        ..Arg::VAR
    };
    static INSTALL: Command = Command {
        name: "install",
        aliases: &["i"],
        flags: &[&FORCE],
        key: 100,
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    /// Same shape as ROOT, but a CLI that owns all of its flags. The subcommand says
    /// nothing and inherits it, which is the point: only the root declares the mode.
    static STRICT_INSTALL: Command = Command {
        name: "install",
        aliases: &["i"],
        flags: &[&FORCE],
        key: 100,
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    static STRICT: Command = Command {
        name: "ex",
        flags: &[&FORCE, &JOBS, &COLOR, &VERBOSE],
        args: &[&FILE, &REST],
        subcommands: &[&STRICT_INSTALL],
        unknown_flags: Some(UnknownFlags::Error),
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    static ROOT: Command = Command {
        name: "ex",
        flags: &[&FORCE, &JOBS, &COLOR, &VERBOSE],
        args: &[&FILE, &REST],
        subcommands: &[&INSTALL],
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    static ARGUMENT_CONFLICT: Command = Command {
        name: "ex",
        flags: &[&FORCE],
        subcommands: &[&INSTALL],
        args_conflicts_with_subcommands: true,
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };

    // A CLI shaped exactly like mise's root: a default subcommand, a positional of its own,
    // and a subcommand under the default — which is the arrangement that tells routing from
    // a plain positional.
    static TASK: Arg = Arg {
        key: 20,
        name: "task",
        ..Arg::REQUIRED
    };
    static RUN_TASK: Arg = Arg {
        key: 21,
        name: "run_task",
        ..Arg::REQUIRED
    };
    static DEEP: Command = Command {
        name: "deep",
        args: &[&RUN_TASK],
        key: 203,
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    static LINT: Command = Command {
        name: "lint",
        subcommands: &[&DEEP],
        // A default of its own, so that a parse which forgot it had already taken one would
        // have somewhere to go. Nothing else in these fixtures can show the latch working.
        default_subcommand: Some(&DEEP),
        key: 202,
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    static RUN: Command = Command {
        name: "run",
        args: &[&RUN_TASK],
        subcommands: &[&LINT],
        key: 200,
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };
    static DEFAULTING: Command = Command {
        name: "mise",
        flags: &[&VERBOSE],
        args: &[&TASK],
        subcommands: &[&RUN, &INSTALL],
        default_subcommand: Some(find_subcommand(&[&RUN, &INSTALL], "run")),
        ..Command::EMPTY
    };

    /// Collect every event, or the first error.
    fn parse<'t: 'v, 'v>(
        root: &'t Command<'t>,
        argv: &'v [&'v OsStr],
    ) -> Result<Vec<Event<'t, 'v, 'v>>, Error<'t, 'v>> {
        let mut parser = Parser::new(root, argv);
        let mut events = Vec::new();
        while let Some(event) = parser.next_event() {
            events.push(event?);
        }
        Ok(events)
    }

    fn argv<const N: usize>(tokens: [&str; N]) -> [&OsStr; N] {
        tokens.map(OsStr::new)
    }

    #[test]
    fn long_boolean() {
        let a = argv(["--force"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &FORCE,
                value: None,
                negated: false
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn long_boolean_accepts_only_opted_in_attached_values() {
        for (token, negated, value) in [
            ("--color=false", false, b"false".as_slice()),
            ("--color=true", false, b"true".as_slice()),
            ("--no-color=false", true, b"false".as_slice()),
        ] {
            let a = argv([token]);
            assert_eq!(
                parse(&EXPLICIT_BOOL_ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
                vec![Event::Flag {
                    flag: &EXPLICIT_BOOL,
                    value: Some(value),
                    negated,
                }]
            );
        }

        let a = argv(["--color=maybe"]);
        assert!(matches!(
            parse(&EXPLICIT_BOOL_ROOT, &a),
            Err(Error::InvalidChoice { name: "color", .. })
        ));

        let a = argv(["--force=false"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &FORCE,
                value: None,
                negated: false,
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn long_value_forms() {
        for tokens in [vec!["--jobs=8"], vec!["--jobs", "8"]] {
            let a: Vec<&OsStr> = tokens.iter().map(|t| OsStr::new(*t)).collect();
            assert_eq!(
                parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
                vec![Event::Flag {
                    flag: &JOBS,
                    value: Some(b"8"),
                    negated: false
                }],
                "{tokens:?}"
            );
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn long_value_keeps_later_equals() {
        let a = argv(["--jobs=a=b"]);
        let Event::Flag { value, .. } = parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap()[0] else {
            panic!("expected a flag");
        };
        assert_eq!(value, Some(&b"a=b"[..]));
    }

    #[test]
    fn long_value_attached_empty_is_empty_not_absent() {
        let a = argv(["--jobs="]);
        let Event::Flag { value, .. } = parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap()[0] else {
            panic!("expected a flag");
        };
        assert_eq!(value, Some(&b""[..]));
    }

    #[test]
    fn long_value_refuses_flaglike_next_word() {
        let a = argv(["--jobs", "--force"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a),
            Err(Error::MissingFlagValue { flag: &JOBS })
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn long_value_accepts_negative_number() {
        let a = argv(["--jobs", "-1"]);
        let Event::Flag { value, .. } = parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap()[0] else {
            panic!("expected a flag");
        };
        assert_eq!(value, Some(&b"-1"[..]));
    }

    #[test]
    fn missing_optional_positional_reserves_the_last_word() {
        static OPTIONAL: Arg = Arg {
            key: 90,
            name: "optional",
            required: false,
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static REQUIRED: Arg = Arg {
            key: 91,
            name: "required",
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static CMD: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            args: &[&OPTIONAL, &REQUIRED],
            allow_missing_positional: true,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let one = argv(["value"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CMD, &one).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Arg {
                arg: &REQUIRED,
                value: b"value",
                delimit: true
            }]
        );
        let two = argv(["optional", "required"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CMD, &two).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &OPTIONAL,
                    value: b"optional",
                    delimit: true
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REQUIRED,
                    value: b"required",
                    delimit: true
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn negative_numbers_are_narrowly_opted_in() {
        static PLAIN: Flag = Flag {
            key: 90,
            name: "plain",
            longs: &["plain"],
            ..Flag::VALUE
        };
        static VALUE: Arg = Arg {
            key: 91,
            name: "value",
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static CMD: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&PLAIN],
            args: &[&VALUE],
            unknown_flags: Some(UnknownFlags::Error),
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let flag = argv(["--plain", "-1"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CMD, &flag),
            Err(Error::MissingFlagValue { flag: &PLAIN })
        );
        let positional = argv(["-1"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CMD, &positional),
            Err(Error::UnknownFlag { token: b"-1" })
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_exact_declared_digit_short_outranks_a_negative_number() {
        static PRINT0: Flag = Flag {
            key: 92,
            name: "print0",
            shorts: b"0",
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static VALUE: Arg = Arg {
            key: 93,
            name: "value",
            required: false,
            allow_negative_numbers: true,
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static CMD: Command = Command {
            name: "fd",
            flags: &[&PRINT0],
            args: &[&VALUE],
            unknown_flags: Some(UnknownFlags::Error),
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CMD, &argv(["-0"])),
            Ok(vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &PRINT0,
                value: None,
                negated: false,
            }])
        );
        assert!(matches!(
            parse(&CMD, &argv(["-1"])),
            Ok(events) if matches!(events.as_slice(), [Event::Arg { value: b"-1", .. }])
        ));
    }

    #[test]
    fn negation_of_value_flag_does_not_consume_a_value() {
        static MODE: Flag = Flag {
            key: 9,
            name: "mode",
            longs: &["mode"],
            negate: Some("no-mode"),
            ..Flag::VALUE
        };
        static NEGATED_VALUE: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&MODE],
            args: &[&FILE],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--no-mode", "input"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&NEGATED_VALUE, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &MODE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: true
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILE,
                    value: b"input",
                    delimit: true,
                }
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn no_abbreviation() {
        // A prefix names no flag, so by default it is a value like any other word.
        let a = argv(["--forc"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Arg {
                arg: &FILE,
                value: b"--forc",
                delimit: true,
            }]
        );

        // And a CLI that owns its flags hears about it, which is the whole reason
        // the strict mode exists.
        assert!(matches!(
            parse(&STRICT, &a),
            Err(Error::UnknownFlag { token: b"--forc" })
        ));
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unknown_flag_is_a_value_by_default() {
        // The default, and the case it is for: a command line being forwarded to
        // something whose flags this spec does not know.
        let a = argv(["--wat", "keep"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILE,
                    value: b"--wat",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"keep",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );

        // With nowhere to put it, it is an unexpected argument — the same error an
        // extra word gets, rather than a special one about flags.
        static ONE: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            args: &[&FILE],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let a = argv(["a", "--wat"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ONE, &a),
            Err(Error::UnexpectedArg { token: b"--wat" })
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn negation() {
        let a = argv(["--no-color"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &COLOR,
                value: None,
                negated: true
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn short_bundle_and_attached_value() {
        let a = argv(["-fj8"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &FORCE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &JOBS,
                    value: Some(b"8"),
                    negated: false
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn short_value_strips_one_equals() {
        for (tokens, want) in [(["-j=8"], &b"8"[..]), (["-j==8"], &b"=8"[..])] {
            let a = argv(tokens);
            let Event::Flag { value, .. } = parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap()[0] else {
                panic!("expected a flag");
            };
            assert_eq!(value, Some(want), "{tokens:?}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn bare_dash_is_a_value() {
        let a = argv(["-"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Arg {
                arg: &FILE,
                value: b"-",
                delimit: true,
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn positionals_then_variadic() {
        let a = argv(["one", "two", "three"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILE,
                    value: b"one",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"two",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"three",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn subcommand_and_alias_route_the_same() {
        for token in ["install", "i"] {
            let a = argv([token]);
            assert_eq!(
                parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
                vec![Event::Command(&INSTALL)],
                "{token}"
            );
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_parent_argument_can_exclude_a_later_subcommand() {
        let a = argv(["--force", "install"]);
        assert!(matches!(
            parse(&ARGUMENT_CONFLICT, &a),
            Err(Error::SubcommandConflict { subcommand }) if subcommand.name == "install"
        ));
    }

    #[test]
    fn subcommand_only_routes_before_a_positional_is_filled() {
        let a = argv(["other", "install"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILE,
                    value: b"other",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"install",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_word_naming_no_subcommand_goes_to_the_default_one() {
        // usage-lib's answer, which this reproduces: `mise build` comes back as commands
        // `["mise", "run"]` with the word bound to *run's* argument — not to `mise`'s own
        // `[TASK]`, which is what makes this more than a synonym for a positional.
        let a = argv(["build"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&DEFAULTING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Command(&RUN),
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &RUN_TASK,
                    value: b"build",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    // A shared table, as a flattened struct's would be. Declared outside the tests so both
    // can splice it, which is the arrangement it exists to model.
    static SHARED_QUIET: Flag = Flag {
        key: 300,
        name: "quiet",
        longs: &["quiet"],
        ..Flag::BOOL
    };
    static SHARED_FLAGS: &[&Flag] = &[&SHARED_QUIET];
    static SHARED_WHAT: Arg = Arg {
        key: 301,
        name: "what",
        ..Arg::REQUIRED
    };
    static SHARED_ARGS: &[&Arg] = &[&SHARED_WHAT];

    #[test]
    fn concatenating_tables_keeps_the_order_they_were_given_in() {
        // The property positional arguments depend on: a flattened group lands where the
        // field was written, not at the end. `[&FILE], SHARED, [&REST]` has to stay in that
        // order or `ex a b c` binds the wrong words.
        const ARGS: &[&[&Arg]] = &[&[&FILE], SHARED_ARGS, &[&REST]];
        static TABLE: [&Arg; table_len(ARGS)] = concat_args(ARGS);
        assert_eq!(
            TABLE.iter().map(|a| a.name).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            ["file", "what", "rest"]
        );

        // Empty groups contribute nothing and disturb nothing, which is what lets the derive
        // emit a group per field without checking whether it is empty first.
        const WITH_GAPS: &[&[&Flag]] = &[&[], &[&FORCE], &[], SHARED_FLAGS, &[]];
        static FLAGS: [&Flag; table_len(WITH_GAPS)] = concat_flags(WITH_GAPS);
        // By long form: these fixtures do not all set `name`, and the placeholder's is also
        // empty — so comparing names could not tell a real entry from a leftover slot.
        assert_eq!(
            FLAGS.iter().map(|f| f.longs).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            [&["force"], &["quiet"]]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_concatenated_table_parses_like_a_declared_one() {
        // The point of doing this at compile time: what the parser walks is one flat slice,
        // indistinguishable from a command that declared everything itself.
        const FLAG_GROUPS: &[&[&Flag]] = &[&[&FORCE], SHARED_FLAGS];
        const ARG_GROUPS: &[&[&Arg]] = &[SHARED_ARGS, &[&REST]];
        static FLAGS: [&Flag; table_len(FLAG_GROUPS)] = concat_flags(FLAG_GROUPS);
        static ARGS: [&Arg; table_len(ARG_GROUPS)] = concat_args(ARG_GROUPS);
        static JOINED: Command = Command {
            name: "joined",
            flags: &FLAGS,
            args: &ARGS,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--quiet", "one", "two", "--force"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&JOINED, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &SHARED_QUIET,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &SHARED_WHAT,
                    value: b"one",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"two",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &FORCE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unknown_flag_is_not_routed() {
        // A dash-prefixed token that names no flag becomes a value here (the default for
        // `unknown_flags`), and it must not thereby become a *subcommand* word: usage-lib
        // stops looking for subcommands at an unrecognised flag, and binds it to the command
        // still in scope. Verified against usage-lib, where `ex --wat` comes back as commands
        // `["ex"]` with `ROOT_TASK = "--wat"`.
        for token in ["--wat", "-x"] {
            let a = argv([token]);
            assert_eq!(
                parse(&DEFAULTING, &a).unwrap(),
                vec![Event::Arg {
                    arg: &TASK,
                    value: token.as_bytes(),
                    delimit: true,
                }],
                "{token} should bind where it was typed, not in the default subcommand"
            );
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_named_subcommand_is_not_routed() {
        // The default is for words that name nothing. A word that names a sibling still
        // selects it, and the root's own argument is still reachable behind one.
        let a = argv(["install"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&DEFAULTING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Command(&INSTALL)]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unmatched_word_is_forwarded_when_external_subcommand_is_set() {
        static CATCH: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&VERBOSE],
            subcommands: &[&INSTALL],
            external_subcommand: true,
            unknown_flags: Some(UnknownFlags::Error),
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let a = argv(["foo", "--help", "bar"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CATCH, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::External { values: &a[..] }]
        );

        let a = argv(["install"]);
        assert_eq!(parse(&CATCH, &a).unwrap(), vec![Event::Command(&INSTALL)]);

        let a = argv(["--verbose", "foo", "--verbose"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CATCH, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &VERBOSE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::External { values: &a[1..] }
            ]
        );

        let a = argv(["--wat"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CATCH, &a),
            Err(Error::UnknownFlag { token: b"--wat" })
        );

        // A negative number is a value, not a flag, so it can be the unmatched word.
        let a = argv(["-1", "rest"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CATCH, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::External { values: &a[..] }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_default_subcommand_outranks_an_external_one() {
        static CATCH_DEFAULT: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            subcommands: &[&RUN],
            default_subcommand: Some(&RUN),
            external_subcommand: true,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let a = argv(["build"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&CATCH_DEFAULT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Command(&RUN),
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &RUN_TASK,
                    value: b"build",
                    delimit: true,
                }
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_default_subcommand_starts_at_the_word_it_receives() {
        let a = argv(["build"]);
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&DEFAULTING, &a);
        assert_eq!(parser.next_event(), Some(Ok(Event::Command(&RUN))));
        assert_eq!(parser.command_start(), 0);
        assert_eq!(
            parser.next_event(),
            Some(Ok(Event::Arg {
                arg: &RUN_TASK,
                value: b"build",
                delimit: true,
            }))
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_root_clause_separator_does_not_select_empty_default() {
        static CHILD: Command = Command {
            name: "run",
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        static ROOT: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            clause: Some(&Clause {
                key: 400,
                name: "items",
                separator: Some(b":::"),
                flags: &[],
                args: &[],
            }),
            subcommands: &[&CHILD],
            default_subcommand: Some(&CHILD),
            default_subcommand_on_empty: true,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let a = argv([":::"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::ClauseSeparator {
                clause: *ROOT.clause.unwrap(),
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_default_can_be_named_by_an_alias() {
        // usage-lib resolves the name against subcommand names, aliases and hidden aliases
        // alike, so a spec may point `default_subcommand` at any of them.
        static BY_ALIAS: Command = Command {
            name: "mise",
            args: &[&TASK],
            subcommands: &[&INSTALL],
            // `INSTALL` answers to "i" as well as to its name.
            default_subcommand: Some(find_subcommand(&[&INSTALL], "i")),
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        assert!(::core::ptr::eq(
            BY_ALIAS.default_subcommand.expect("declared"),
            &INSTALL
        ));
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_name_outranks_another_commands_alias() {
        // A spec `assert_unique_subcommand_names` would reject, resolved anyway: a parser
        // handed a table nothing validated still has to answer, and the answer is the
        // command whose own name it is. Both orders, because taking the first candidate
        // that matched on either name or alias made this depend on which was listed first
        // — and usage-lib, building a map, took the last.
        static ALPHA: Command = Command {
            name: "alpha",
            aliases: &["run"],
            key: 300,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        static PLAIN_RUN: Command = Command {
            name: "run",
            key: 301,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        for subcommands in [&[&ALPHA, &PLAIN_RUN] as &[&Command], &[&PLAIN_RUN, &ALPHA]] {
            assert!(::core::ptr::eq(
                find_subcommand(subcommands, "run"),
                &PLAIN_RUN
            ));
            let root: Command = Command {
                name: "ex",
                subcommands,
                ..Command::EMPTY
            };
            let a = argv(["run"]);
            assert_eq!(parse(&root, &a).unwrap(), vec![Event::Command(&PLAIN_RUN)]);
            // The alias still reaches its own command by every name it does not share.
            let a = argv(["alpha"]);
            assert_eq!(parse(&root, &a).unwrap(), vec![Event::Command(&ALPHA)]);
            // `ex help run` asks about the command `ex run` selects. These are separate
            // lookups — help resolves a path without descending — and answering differently
            // for a colliding word is the divergence this rule exists to end.
            let a = argv(["help", "run"]);
            match parse(&root, &a) {
                Err(Error::Help { cmd, .. }) => {
                    assert!(
                        ::core::ptr::eq(cmd, &PLAIN_RUN),
                        "got help for {}",
                        cmd.name
                    )
                }
                other => panic!("expected a help request, got {other:?}"),
            }
        }
    }

    #[test]
    #[should_panic(expected = "two subcommands answer to the same name")]
    fn an_alias_cannot_shadow_a_sibling_command() {
        static ADD: Command = Command {
            name: "add",
            aliases: &["install"],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        assert_unique_subcommand_names(&[&INSTALL, &ADD]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_word_is_re_examined_against_the_command_it_reached() {
        // The reason the cursor steps back rather than the token being consumed: `lint` names
        // nothing at the root, and once inside `run` it names a subcommand. mise's mounted
        // task names arrive exactly this way.
        let a = argv(["lint"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&DEFAULTING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Command(&RUN), Event::Command(&LINT)]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_default_is_taken_at_most_once_per_parse() {
        // usage-lib latches this for the whole parse rather than per command, and the shape
        // that shows the difference needs two of them: `lint` routes through `run`, and `lint`
        // declares a default too. A second word there would descend again — walking a CLI
        // deeper than anything the user typed — so the answer is that it does not.
        let a = argv(["lint", "zzz"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&DEFAULTING, &a),
            Err(Error::UnexpectedArg { token: b"zzz" }),
            "the second word must not reach `deep`"
        );

        // Reached explicitly, the same command still takes it: the latch bounds routing, not
        // the tree.
        let a = argv(["lint", "deep", "zzz"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&DEFAULTING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Command(&RUN),
                Event::Command(&LINT),
                Event::Command(&DEEP),
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &RUN_TASK,
                    value: b"zzz",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_flag_before_the_word_still_belongs_to_the_root() {
        // Routing happens at the word, so anything typed before it was addressed to the
        // command the user was actually at.
        let a = argv(["--verbose", "build"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&DEFAULTING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &VERBOSE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Command(&RUN),
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &RUN_TASK,
                    value: b"build",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn nothing_routes_after_the_separator() {
        // Past `--` there are no subcommands left to select, so there is no default to reach
        // either: the words are values of whatever the command declares.
        let a = argv(["--", "build"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&DEFAULTING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Arg {
                arg: &TASK,
                value: b"build",
                delimit: true,
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn globals_are_inherited_but_plain_flags_are_not() {
        let a = argv(["install", "--verbose"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Command(&INSTALL),
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &VERBOSE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                }
            ]
        );

        // `--jobs` belongs to the root and is not global, so it is not a flag here.
        // Strictly that is an unknown flag; leniently it is a word, and `install`
        // declares no argument to hold one — either way it is never read as the
        // root's flag, which is what this test is about.
        let a = argv(["install", "--jobs", "8"]);
        assert!(matches!(parse(&STRICT, &a), Err(Error::UnknownFlag { .. })));
        assert!(matches!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a),
            Err(Error::UnexpectedArg { token: b"--jobs" })
        ));
    }

    #[test]
    fn double_dash_protects_flaglike_values() {
        let a = argv(["--", "--force", "-x"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILE,
                    value: b"--force",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"-x",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn second_double_dash_is_a_value() {
        let a = argv(["--", "a", "--", "b"]);
        let values: Vec<&[u8]> = parse(&ROOT, &a)
            .unwrap()
            .iter()
            .filter_map(|e| match e {
                Event::Arg { value, .. } => Some(*value),
                _ => None,
            })
            .collect();
        assert_eq!(values, vec![&b"a"[..], &b"--"[..], &b"b"[..]]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn allow_hyphen_values_takes_a_flaglike_detached_value() {
        static ARGS: Flag = Flag {
            key: 6,
            name: "args",
            longs: &["args"],
            shorts: b"a",
            takes_value: true,
            allow_hyphen_values: true,
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static DIR: Flag = Flag {
            key: 7,
            name: "working-dir",
            longs: &["working-dir"],
            shorts: b"d",
            ..Flag::VALUE
        };
        static HYPHEN: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&ARGS, &DIR],
            args: &[&REST],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["-a", "-destroy"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&HYPHEN, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &ARGS,
                value: Some(b"-destroy"),
                negated: false
            }]
        );

        let a = argv(["--args", "--", "-x"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&HYPHEN, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &ARGS,
                    value: Some(b"--"),
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"-x",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn require_equals_refuses_a_detached_value() {
        static INSPECT: Flag = Flag {
            key: 8,
            name: "inspect",
            longs: &["inspect"],
            shorts: b"i",
            takes_value: true,
            require_equals: true,
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static EQ: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&INSPECT],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--inspect=9229"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&EQ, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &INSPECT,
                value: Some(b"9229"),
                negated: false
            }]
        );

        let a = argv(["--inspect", "9229"]);
        assert!(matches!(
            parse(&EQ, &a),
            Err(Error::MissingFlagValue { .. })
        ));

        let a = argv(["-i9229"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&EQ, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &INSPECT,
                value: Some(b"9229"),
                negated: false
            }]
        );

        static ALL: Flag = Flag {
            key: 9,
            name: "all",
            longs: &["all"],
            shorts: b"a",
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static BUNDLE: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&ALL, &INSPECT],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let a = argv(["-ai", "9229"]);
        assert!(
            matches!(parse(&BUNDLE, &a), Err(Error::MissingFlagValue { .. })),
            "a require_equals short reached through a bundle still refuses the following word"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn default_missing_binds_when_the_value_is_left_off() {
        static COLOR: Flag = Flag {
            key: 9,
            name: "color",
            longs: &["color"],
            takes_value: true,
            default_missing: Some(b"always"),
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static VERBOSE: Flag = Flag {
            key: 10,
            name: "verbose",
            longs: &["verbose"],
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static MISSING: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&COLOR, &VERBOSE],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--color"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&MISSING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &COLOR,
                value: Some(b"always"),
                negated: false
            }]
        );

        let a = argv(["--color=never"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&MISSING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &COLOR,
                value: Some(b"never"),
                negated: false
            }]
        );

        let a = argv(["--color", "--verbose"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&MISSING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &COLOR,
                    value: Some(b"always"),
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &VERBOSE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
            ]
        );

        let a = argv(["--color="]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&MISSING, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &COLOR,
                value: Some(b""),
                negated: false
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn optional_flag_value_distinguishes_bare_and_explicit_forms() {
        static BUMP: Flag = Flag {
            key: 11,
            name: "bump",
            longs: &["bump"],
            takes_value: true,
            value_optional: true,
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static OPTIONAL: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&BUMP],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        assert_eq!(parse(&OPTIONAL, &argv([])).unwrap(), vec![]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&OPTIONAL, &argv(["--bump"])).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &BUMP,
                value: None,
                negated: false,
            }]
        );
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&OPTIONAL, &argv(["--bump=5"])).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &BUMP,
                value: Some(b"5"),
                negated: false,
            }]
        );

        static INCLUDE: Flag = Flag {
            key: 12,
            name: "include",
            longs: &["include"],
            takes_value: true,
            variadic: true,
            value_optional: true,
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static VERBOSE: Flag = Flag {
            key: 13,
            name: "verbose",
            longs: &["verbose"],
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static VARIADIC: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&INCLUDE, &VERBOSE],
            args: &[&REST],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&VARIADIC, &argv(["--include", "--verbose", "file"])).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &INCLUDE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false,
                },
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &VERBOSE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"file",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn default_missing_with_require_equals_leaves_the_following_word() {
        static INSPECT: Flag = Flag {
            key: 11,
            name: "inspect",
            longs: &["inspect"],
            takes_value: true,
            require_equals: true,
            default_missing: Some(b"9229"),
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static BOTH: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&INSPECT],
            args: &[&REST],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--inspect"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&BOTH, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &INSPECT,
                value: Some(b"9229"),
                negated: false
            }]
        );

        let a = argv(["--inspect", "80"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&BOTH, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &INSPECT,
                    value: Some(b"9229"),
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &REST,
                    value: b"80",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );

        let a = argv(["--inspect="]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&BOTH, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &INSPECT,
                value: Some(b""),
                negated: false
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn variadic_flag_collects_until_a_flaglike_token() {
        static INCLUDE: Flag = Flag {
            key: 5,
            name: "include",
            longs: &["include"],
            shorts: b"i",
            takes_value: true,
            variadic: true,
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static GREEDY: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&INCLUDE, &FORCE],
            args: &[&FILE],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--include", "x", "y", "--force"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&GREEDY, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &INCLUDE,
                    value: Some(b"x"),
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &INCLUDE,
                    value: Some(b"y"),
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &FORCE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn value_terminators_end_variadic_owners_without_binding() {
        static INCLUDE: Flag = Flag {
            key: 92,
            name: "include",
            longs: &["include"],
            takes_value: true,
            variadic: true,
            value_terminator: Some(b";"),
            ..Flag::BOOL
        };
        static ITEMS: Arg = Arg {
            key: 93,
            name: "items",
            var: true,
            value_terminator: Some(b";"),
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static AFTER: Arg = Arg {
            key: 94,
            name: "after",
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static FLAG_CMD: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&INCLUDE],
            args: &[&AFTER],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        static ARG_CMD: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            args: &[&ITEMS, &AFTER],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let flag = argv(["--include", "a", ";", "tail"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&FLAG_CMD, &flag).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &INCLUDE,
                    value: Some(b"a"),
                    negated: false,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &AFTER,
                    value: b"tail",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );

        let positional = argv(["a", ";", "tail"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ARG_CMD, &positional).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &ITEMS,
                    value: b"a",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &AFTER,
                    value: b"tail",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_non_variadic_flag_leaves_the_next_word_alone() {
        // The counterpart to the test above: a flag that takes one value must not
        // swallow the word after it, which would silently steal a positional.
        let a = argv(["--jobs", "8", "keep-me"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &JOBS,
                    value: Some(b"8"),
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILE,
                    value: b"keep-me",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn double_dash_seen_means_a_separator_was_typed() {
        static FILES: Arg = Arg {
            key: 23,
            name: "files",
            double_dash: DoubleDash::Automatic,
            ..Arg::VAR
        };
        static AUTO: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&FORCE],
            args: &[&FILES],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--", "x"]);
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&ROOT, &a);
        while parser.next_event().is_some() {}
        assert!(parser.double_dash_seen(), "a real separator was consumed");

        // `automatic` stops flag interpretation without a separator being typed,
        // and reporting one would be a lie to any caller that forwards argv.
        let a = argv(["x", "--force"]);
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&AUTO, &a);
        while parser.next_event().is_some() {}
        assert!(
            !parser.double_dash_seen(),
            "automatic mode must not claim a separator was given"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_wrapper_still_forwards_a_help_flag() {
        // Supplying `--help` must not take the two forwarding mechanisms away from a wrapper,
        // which is the one place a CLI means to hand the token on rather than answer it.
        static ARGS: Arg = Arg {
            key: 24,
            name: "args",
            ..Arg::VAR
        };
        static WRAP: Command = Command {
            name: "wrap",
            args: &[&ARGS],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        // A typed separator: everything after it is a value, `--help` included.
        let a = argv(["--", "--help", "-h"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&WRAP, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &ARGS,
                    value: b"--help",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &ARGS,
                    value: b"-h",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );

        // And `automatic`, for the wrapper whose caller should not have to type one: the
        // first value stops flag interpretation, so the flags after it forward.
        static AUTO_ARGS: Arg = Arg {
            key: 25,
            name: "args",
            double_dash: DoubleDash::Automatic,
            ..Arg::VAR
        };
        static AUTO_WRAP: Command = Command {
            name: "wrap",
            args: &[&AUTO_ARGS],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["node", "--help"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&AUTO_WRAP, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &AUTO_ARGS,
                    value: b"node",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &AUTO_ARGS,
                    value: b"--help",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );

        // Before either takes effect, though, the wrapper's own help is what `--help` asks
        // for — `mise run --help` is a question about `run`, not a value for it.
        let a = argv(["--help"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&AUTO_WRAP, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Flag {
                flag: &HELP_LONG,
                value: None,
                negated: false
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn double_dash_required_arg() {
        static CMD: Arg = Arg {
            key: 20,
            name: "cmd",
            double_dash: DoubleDash::Required,
            ..Arg::REQUIRED
        };
        static EXEC: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            args: &[&CMD],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["--", "ls"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&EXEC, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Arg {
                arg: &CMD,
                value: b"ls",
                delimit: true,
            }]
        );

        let a = argv(["ls"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&EXEC, &a),
            Err(Error::ArgRequiresDoubleDash { arg: &CMD })
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn double_dash_preserve_keeps_the_separator() {
        static ARGS: Arg = Arg {
            key: 21,
            name: "args",
            double_dash: DoubleDash::Preserve,
            ..Arg::VAR
        };
        static WRAP: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            args: &[&ARGS],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let a = argv(["a", "--", "b"]);
        let values: Vec<&[u8]> = parse(&WRAP, &a)
            .unwrap()
            .iter()
            .filter_map(|e| match e {
                Event::Arg { value, .. } => Some(*value),
                _ => None,
            })
            .collect();
        assert_eq!(values, vec![&b"a"[..], &b"--"[..], &b"b"[..]]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn double_dash_automatic_stops_flag_interpretation() {
        static FILES: Arg = Arg {
            key: 22,
            name: "files",
            double_dash: DoubleDash::Automatic,
            ..Arg::VAR
        };
        static AUTO: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            flags: &[&FORCE],
            args: &[&FILES],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        // The flag before the first value is still a flag; the one after it is a
        // value.
        let a = argv(["-f", "one", "--force"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&AUTO, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![
                Event::Flag {
                    flag: &FORCE,
                    value: None,
                    negated: false
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILES,
                    value: b"one",
                    delimit: true,
                },
                Event::Arg {
                    arg: &FILES,
                    value: b"--force",
                    delimit: true,
                },
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn too_many_words() {
        static ONE: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            args: &[&FILE],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        let a = argv(["a", "b"]);
        assert_eq!(parse(&ONE, &a), Err(Error::UnexpectedArg { token: b"b" }));
    }

    #[test]
    fn unknown_letter_rejects_the_whole_bundle() {
        // `-f` is real and `-z` is not. The first event must be the error: if the
        // flag event came out first, a caller would have applied `-f` from a
        // command line that was rejected.
        let a = argv(["-fz"]);
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&STRICT, &a);
        assert_eq!(
            parser.next_event(),
            Some(Err(Error::UnknownFlag { token: b"-fz" })),
            "an unknown letter must reject the token before any of it is applied"
        );
        assert!(parser.next_event().is_none());

        // Leniently, the same token is a value — and `-f` is *not* applied, since
        // the token was never a bundle at all.
        let a = argv(["-fz"]);
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&ROOT, &a).unwrap(),
            vec![Event::Arg {
                arg: &FILE,
                value: b"-fz",
                delimit: true,
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn unknown_short_error_names_the_whole_token() {
        for (tokens, want) in [(["-z"], &b"-z"[..]), (["-fz"], &b"-fz"[..])] {
            let a = argv(tokens);
            assert_eq!(
                parse(&STRICT, &a),
                Err(Error::UnknownFlag { token: want }),
                "{tokens:?}"
            );
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn errors_are_terminal() {
        let a = argv(["--wat", "--force"]);
        let mut parser = Parser::new(&STRICT, &a);
        assert!(parser.next_event().unwrap().is_err());
        assert!(parser.next_event().is_none());
    }

    #[test]
    fn non_utf8_values_still_parse() {
        // A value that is not valid UTF-8 binds; only converting it fails, and
        // only if a caller asks.
        let raw = OsStr::new("--force");
        let a = [raw];
        assert!(parse(&ROOT, &a).is_ok());

        assert!(as_str(b"ok").is_ok());
        assert!(as_str(&[0xff, 0xfe]).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_multicall_applet_is_the_basename_unless_it_is_the_dispatcher() {
        assert_eq!(multicall_basename("/usr/bin/ls"), "ls");
        assert_eq!(multicall_basename(r"C:\busybox\ls.exe"), "ls");
        assert_eq!(
            multicall_applet("/usr/bin/ls", "busybox", Some("busybox")),
            Some("ls")
        );
        assert_eq!(
            multicall_applet("/usr/bin/busybox", "busybox", Some("busybox")),
            None
        );
        assert_eq!(
            multicall_applet("ls.exe", "busybox", Some("busybox")),
            Some("ls")
        );
        assert_eq!(
            multicall_applet("/usr/bin/busybox", "BusyBox", Some("/opt/bin/busybox")),
            None
        );
        assert_eq!(
            multicall_applet("busybox.exe", "BusyBox", Some("busybox.exe")),
            None
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_spec_request_is_the_first_word_and_nothing_else() {
        let request = [OsStr::new(SPEC_REQUEST)];
        assert!(is_spec_request(&ROOT, &request));

        // Anywhere but the front it is an ordinary value, which is what makes the endpoint
        // safe for a CLI whose arguments are arbitrary text.
        let later = ["install", SPEC_REQUEST].map(OsStr::new);
        assert!(!is_spec_request(&ROOT, &later));
        assert!(!is_spec_request(&ROOT, &[]));
        assert!(!is_spec_request(&ROOT, &[OsStr::new("--help")]));
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_declared_command_of_that_name_keeps_it() {
        static DECLARED: Command = Command {
            name: SPEC_REQUEST,
            key: 200,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        static ALIASED: Command = Command {
            name: "describe",
            aliases: &[SPEC_REQUEST],
            key: 201,
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        static DECLARES_IT: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            subcommands: &[&DECLARED],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };
        static ALIASES_IT: Command = Command {
            name: "ex",
            subcommands: &[&ALIASED],
            ..Command::EMPTY
        };

        let request = [OsStr::new(SPEC_REQUEST)];
        assert!(!is_spec_request(&DECLARES_IT, &request));
        // An alias selects a command just as its name does, so it wins here too.
        assert!(!is_spec_request(&ALIASES_IT, &request));
    }
}