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A line continuation consumes a bare carriage return · case 01

A line continuation consumes a bare carriage return.

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ROOT CAUSE

The recognizer uses '\\\\[\\r\\n]+', which admits or omits a token shape forbidden by the stated grammar.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Implement the complete stated contract, including the boundary fixtures: Accept backslash followed by LF or CRLF, and nothing else.

Unsuccessful approach: The candidate grammar '\\\\\\n' still disagrees with the explicit boundary fixtures.

Case contract

Accept backslash followed by LF or CRLF, and nothing else.

Why this case matters

A local executable model for consumers of structured text; oracle values are authored literals, not outputs copied from the repaired implementation.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import re, unicodedata, json, csv, io, html, base64, binascii, codecs, struct
from urllib.parse import quote, unquote, unquote_to_bytes, urlencode, parse_qsl, urlsplit, urlunsplit
from email.header import decode_header, make_header
from email.utils import getaddresses
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import shlex, string, textwrap

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    try:
        return bool(re.fullmatch('\\\\[\\r\\n]+',x))
    except Exception as exc:
        return {"error": type(exc).__name__}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('boundary 1', solve('\\\r'), False)
check('boundary 2', solve('\\\r\n'), True)
check('boundary 3', solve('\\\n'), True)
check('boundary 4', solve('\\\n\n'), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
boundary 1TrueFalseFailed
boundary 2TrueTruePassed
boundary 3TrueTruePassed
boundary 4TrueFalseFailed

SHA-256 / f467834829b2dca4ec79224a533b9551bea83ec666ead8e22f2c96d2d6b28fce

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import re, unicodedata, json, csv, io, html, base64, binascii, codecs, struct
from urllib.parse import quote, unquote, unquote_to_bytes, urlencode, parse_qsl, urlsplit, urlunsplit
from email.header import decode_header, make_header
from email.utils import getaddresses
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import shlex, string, textwrap

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    try:
        return bool(re.fullmatch('\\\\\\n',x))
    except Exception as exc:
        return {"error": type(exc).__name__}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('boundary 1', solve('\\\r'), False)
check('boundary 2', solve('\\\r\n'), True)
check('boundary 3', solve('\\\n'), True)
check('boundary 4', solve('\\\n\n'), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
boundary 1FalseFalsePassed
boundary 2FalseTrueFailed
boundary 3TrueTruePassed
boundary 4FalseFalsePassed

SHA-256 / f3fc38483544234ad5e3accbb9b208e12455597accb1f8c852ade5e7a3edd56b

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import re, unicodedata, json, csv, io, html, base64, binascii, codecs, struct
from urllib.parse import quote, unquote, unquote_to_bytes, urlencode, parse_qsl, urlsplit, urlunsplit
from email.header import decode_header, make_header
from email.utils import getaddresses
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import shlex, string, textwrap

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    try:
        return bool(re.fullmatch('\\\\\\r?\\n',x))
    except Exception as exc:
        return {"error": type(exc).__name__}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('boundary 1', solve('\\\r'), False)
check('boundary 2', solve('\\\r\n'), True)
check('boundary 3', solve('\\\n'), True)
check('boundary 4', solve('\\\n\n'), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
boundary 1FalseFalsePassed
boundary 2TrueTruePassed
boundary 3TrueTruePassed
boundary 4FalseFalsePassed

SHA-256 / fe0aaffb5891cb865454b28fd4a6ee15194117f8a5859d24ceb07ae3b24525d6

Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:37:26.927771+00:00.

Case digest / a22440b895f60e35e528852d5370a94e8d6732f8f06507b7e80009d7e22b3890