Case Dialect

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Structural Core

Record: architecture:case-dialect

Severity: contextual

Scope: filename

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that binds file extensions to the case their language names files in and reads the same subject, variant and concern slots from the stem's word boundaries.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Externally Resolved Slot and before Root Spine Files.

Requires

• Word-Boundary Case
• Positional Slot Resolution

Reinforces

• Closed Vocabulary
• Portability

Enables

• Glob Resolvability

Conflicts with

• Concern-Swallowing Compound

Contracts

• Dialect Resolution

Violated by

• Per-Language Vocabulary

Refactored by

• Declare the Dialect
• Rename to the Case's Word Run

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming

Linked from

• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Taxonomy
• Severity levels

in this codebase

• parseDialect