The counts beside the census, and the language claim the walk used to carry

docs/PORTING.md

@@ -827,10 +827,17 @@ call fit it exactly.
 is `(and (> i 0) (continuation? (at b i)))`, and at the start of the text `i` is -1 — so if
 `and` were a strict function rather than a form, the guard would not save the `(at b -1)`
 beside it and the first press of LEFT would signal `BoundsError`. It is a form and it does
-short-circuit; `test/programs/raylib-codepoints.flan` has a row for it, because the walk
+short-circuit; `test/programs/raylib-codepoints.flan` had a row for it, because the walk
 itself never reaches that offset and the claim is about the language rather than about the
 example.
 
+> **Note, 2026-09-14.** The walk this describes is gone — §A.1 above closed, and `step-back`
+> is now one call to `GetCodepointPrevious`. The finding stands and the observation about
+> `and` is still true; what went with the walk is the corpus's only exercise of it over an
+> out-of-bounds index. The `back at start 0` row still runs and now pins the `(<= offset 0)`
+> guard instead, which is the right thing for it to pin. A language claim wants a language
+> test rather than a raylib example, and there is not one.
+
 **Fixed arrays were the right shape for both.** A codepoint table with a count, a
 `[9 Rectangle]` of toggle buttons, a `[9 string]` of labels. The §3 finding from the
 siam-farmer report — a global cannot hold a `Vec`, and fixed arrays with counts are usually

docs/handoffs/HANDOFF-cimport-ptr.md

@@ -111,11 +111,12 @@ actually about is a **pointer reinterpretation**, which is not a checker arm.
 - `dune build --root .` and `dune test --root .` clean; the dev suite is 232 checks, 0
   failures, unchanged — the new checks are in `test_flan.ml`, which reports pass/fail
   rather than a count.
-- Eleven new checks in `test/test_flan.ml` over three new functions in
-  `test/headers/sample.h` (`blit`, `scratch`, `pair_len_p`): six that must agree, five
-  that must still be reported, each asserting on the message and not on a count. All
-  eleven were confirmed live by breaking `ptr_agrees` in three different directions and
-  watching the right subset go red.
+- New checks in `test/test_flan.ml` over three new functions in `test/headers/sample.h`
+  (`blit`, `scratch`, `pair_len_p`): six declarations that must agree, five that must
+  still be reported, each asserting on the message and not on a count. All of them were
+  confirmed live by breaking `ptr_agrees` in three different directions and watching the
+  right subset go red — the negatives matter most, and they are why the arm can be widened
+  without the check becoming decoration.
 - The raylib acceptance cases ran rather than skipped (`ldconfig` finds
   `libraylib.so.550`); the only "skipping" line in the whole run is the web one, which
   wants a wasm build of raylib that is not in this tree.

vendor/raylib/headers

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #      out of this header and agrees with it by construction. That is also why
 #      the hand-written lines were kept rather than replaced by generated ones.
 #      (There were counts here once. They said 425 and 172 and the truth had
-#      moved on to 463 and 196, which is what a census written into a comment
+#      moved on to 464 and 197, which is what a census written into a comment
 #      beside a growing file always does.)
 #
 # Why it is no longer optional. It used to be `?${FLAN_RAYLIB_H}`, and the