Stage 01 · Foundations
Recovering the language surface
The first problem was not parsing. It was deciding what “Lasso 8.6” meant when much of the surviving reference material was labeled 8.5.
A local evidence base
The project collected versioned manuals, the 8.6 guide and examples, definition stubs, LCAPI headers, archived pages, open-source applications, and framework source. Every generated artifact retains its local source path so a compatibility decision can be audited without depending on a disappearing website.
The 8.6 rule
The surviving evidence indicates that 8.6 is the maintained continuation of 8.5, not a separate language generation. The target therefore contains the explicit 8.6 surface plus every feature documented for 8.5.