# Forward-Only Processing / Complex Grammar/Global State

> "forward-only-processing" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Complex Grammar/Global State" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Complex Grammar/Global State" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:complex-grammar-global-state-forward-only-processing`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-complex-grammar-global-state-forward-only-processing

## tensions-with

- [Forward-Only Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/forward-only-processing.md)
- [Complex Grammar/Global State](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/complex-grammar-global-state.md)