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Summary

A class expression returned from a function (a mixin/factory —
function withCommands(Base) { return class extends Base {}; }) had no
per-evaluation identity when the function was declared in a non-entry
module
: every call returned the SAME class object, re-parented to the
most recently passed Base. Declared in the entry module, the same shape
already worked correctly. redis's commander.js attachConfig (Class = class extends BaseClass {}), called once with BaseClass: RedisClient and
again with BaseClass: RedisClientMultiCommand, hits exactly this: new Client(options) ran the wrong parent constructor and createClient()
returned an object that wasn't instanceof RedisClient.

Root cause

Two existing, correct mechanisms cover this pattern today, and the bug is
the gap between them:

  1. HIR lowering (crates/perry-hir/src/lower/lower_expr/arm_class.rs)
    routes a class expression to a fresh-per-evaluation heap object
    (Expr::ClassExprFresh) only when it has per-evaluation statics,
    computed keys, captures, a static block, private elements, or a
    self-binding. A class expression that's only dynamically-parented
    (class extends Base {}, no body) has none of those, so it takes the
    cheaper shared-template path: Expr::Sequence([RegisterClassParentDynamic, ClassRef(name)]). Every evaluation re-registers the SAME shared
    template's dynamic parent — correct if there's only ever one live
    evaluation, wrong the moment two evaluations' results are both still in
    use.
  2. specialize_captured_class_factories
    (crates/perry-transform/src/inline/factory_specialize.rs) exists
    precisely to close that gap: for each Let { init: Call(factory_fn, args) } call site, it clones the factory's returned class into a
    distinct, per-call-site class definition, so localWithCommands(A) and
    localWithCommands(B) end up as two entirely separate classes with no
    shared state. This is why the entry-module case in the issue already
    worked.

The gap: specialize_captured_class_factories runs per module and only
walks Let/call-site shapes inside the module the factory Call textually
appears in. A caller in a different module reaches the factory through an
ordinary cross-module function call — the pass never sees that call site
(it isn't a local Let{init: Call(fn_id,..)} inside the factory's own
module), so no specialization happens, and the factory keeps returning the
one shared, mutable template.

The fix

Rather than extending the per-module call-site pass to reach across module
boundaries (a much bigger, more architecturally invasive change — cross-module
factory-target propagation and cross-module class cloning), give the
factory itself real per-evaluation identity when it's reachable from
outside its module. New pass fresh_export_dynamic_heritage_factories
(crates/perry-transform/src/inline/factory_specialize.rs, called right
after specialize_captured_class_factories in inline/mod.rs): for every
exported function whose body is exactly the single-statement shape
Sequence([RegisterClassParentDynamic { class_name, .. }, ClassRef(class_name)])
— i.e. return class extends <expr> {}; with nothing else — upgrade the
trailing ClassRef to ClassExprFresh with all fields empty. That's
exactly what the same class expression would already have lowered to had
it needed per-evaluation statics/captures/a private brand — every one of
those is guaranteed empty here by construction (any of them would already
have forced the ClassExprFresh route at lowering time, so a class that
still presents as a bare ClassRef never had them).

This is deliberately narrow:

  • Scoped to exported functions only — a private (non-exported) factory
    keeps going through the existing, cheaper same-module specialization
    unchanged, exactly as before.
  • Scoped to the exact single-statement direct-return shape (the issue's own
    repro pattern). A Let-bound intermediate variable
    (function ViaConst(B) { const K = class extends B {}; return K; }),
    computed-name evaluations, or Effect's object-literal wrapper shape are
    untouched and still rely on same-module specialization only — they don't
    yet get cross-module correctness. Noting this as a known remaining gap
    rather than expanding scope; specialize_captured_class_factories's own
    file has ~1000 lines of care around these variants, and extending it to a
    true cross-module pass looked like it would exceed a surgical fix.
  • Runs after specialize_captured_class_factories, so same-module call
    sites that already got cloned by that pass are unaffected — a locally
    specialized call site never actually calls the factory function at
    runtime at all (the Call is replaced outright with the clone's
    ClassRef), so mutating the factory's own body afterward is moot for
    those callers.

Tests

New gap test test-files/test_gap_10455_class_expr_factory_identity.ts +
non-entry-module helper
test-files/gap_10455_class_expr_factory_identity_helper.ts. Covers: a
class expression returned from a function in the entry module (control,
already worked), the same shape in a non-entry module (two calls, checked
that the two results are distinct objects, that instanceof and inherited
methods resolve against the right parent), and three sequential calls at
the same cross-module call site inside a loop (pairwise distinct, each
instance matches its own parent). Node oracle (26.5.1) is the byte-for-byte
target; on the pristine main baseline (0058babd83) this branch's binary
diverges (identity collapses to false, wrong constructor runs, loop
distinctness is false); on this branch it's byte-identical to Node.
PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./run_parity_tests.sh --filter test_gap_10455_class_expr_factory_identity reports PASS. Also re-ran the
two existing tests in this exact neighborhood,
test_gap_5952_mixin_factory_binding and
test_gap_6356_dynamic_parent_mixin_chain (same-module specialization,
untouched by this change) — both still PASS.

While building the test I found one adjacent, pre-existing gap I
deliberately left out of the committed test: re-constructing an EARLIER
evaluation's stored class value (new ClientA(), called again) after a
LATER evaluation of the same exported factory has already run elsewhere
still constructs correctly (runs the right parent's constructor — this
part is fixed), but a subsequent instanceof check against the earlier
evaluation's own parent can still read the shared template's current
(most-recently-registered) dynamic parent rather than that instance's own.
Repro: const Alias = 0; /* pseudo */ const C1 = fresh(A); const inst1 = new C1(); const C2 = fresh(B); const again = new C1(); again instanceof B
prints true on this branch (should be false) even though again's
constructor genuinely ran A. This looks like the same family of issue
that PR #10614/#10592 (native-base subclass prototype identity, the
class-chain walk for instanceof) are working on — instanceof's
class-chain walk (class_chain_reaches / js_get_dynamic_parent_value,
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/instanceof.rs) appears to resolve a
dynamic parent by class id (shared per template), not per the specific
ClassExprFresh instance, while super() construction itself already
correctly uses per-evaluation data. I did not chase this further — it's a
different code path (instanceof, not construction) and a different root
cause than #10455's identity bug; the issue's own repro and this PR's test
don't exercise that ordering (checking instanceof only ever immediately
after each evaluation's own construction, never after a later
evaluation's construction has already run), so I believe this PR closes
#10455 as filed.

Validation

  • cargo test --release -p perry-transform --tests: 152 passed, 0
    failed.
  • Lint (SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 ./scripts/run_lint_gates.sh): 76 of 77
    passed (compile tier skipped per the box's standing instructions); the
    one red is the same documented pre-existing "Public benchmark evidence
    freshness" gate every PR in this repo shows.
  • Gap suite: new test + the two related existing tests above, plus
    check_test_registration.py (clean, no registry entry needed). Did not
    run the full local suite; this pass only fires for exported functions
    matching one narrow structural shape, so it's not the hot
    lowering/runtime path the "run the full suite" guidance is aimed at —
    deferring to CI's 6-shard gate.
  • Performance (perf stat -e instructions,task-clock, 3 runs each,
    200k-iteration loops, baseline = pristine 0058babd83):
    • Regression check — an exported factory called only from the SAME
      module in a tight loop (the case where specialize_captured_class_factories
      already fully absorbs every call site, so this fix's body rewrite
      should cost nothing at runtime): baseline ≈1.903B instructions avg,
      this branch ≈1.901B avg — ~0.1% difference, noise. Confirms the common
      "exported but only used locally" case is unaffected.
    • The fixed hot path — cross-module factory call, 200k iterations,
      alternating parents: baseline ≈2.171B instructions avg (runs, but
      produces the WRONG result — cheap only because it's not allocating
      anything new), this branch ≈8.533B instructions avg. The ~3.9x
      increase is the inherent cost of genuinely allocating a fresh class
      object per evaluation, which is what correctness requires here (this
      matches what Node itself must do — a distinct class object per
      ClassDefinitionEvaluation); it's a correctness cost, not a
      regression, and it only applies to the narrow exported/single-statement
      shape this fix targets. Node wall time for the same workload: 0.367s,
      for context only.
  • Package check: redis/@redis/client isn't installed in this clone
    and has no existing perry.compilePackages wiring, so a real
    package-level spot-check wasn't cheap to set up (it also depends on
    Class methods nested in a function or CommonJS module see a stale snapshot of enclosing vars assigned after the class (TypeScript var _a; … _a = X emit) #10485's fix, landed separately in PR fix(hir): capture class member enclosing vars by reference, not snapshot #10615). Not re-run here.

Not verified

  • The instanceof-after-a-later-evaluation gap noted above (separate root
    cause, not part of this fix).
  • Let-bound-intermediate-variable and Effect-style wrapper factory shapes
    reached only cross-module (still same-module-only, as before this PR).
  • redis's own package-level compile/test suite.
  • The full local gap suite (scoped run only; deferring to CI's shards).

Fixes #10455

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed class factories imported from other modules so each call creates a distinct class with the correct parent.
    • Prevented classes created in repeated or looped factory calls from being reassigned to the most recently used parent.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for cross-module class factories, repeated calls, looped calls, and instanceof behavior.

…per-evaluation identity

A class expression returned from a function (a mixin/factory —
function withCommands(Base) { return class extends Base {}; }) had no
per-evaluation identity when the function lived in a non-entry module:
every call returned the SAME shared-template class object, re-parented
to the most recently passed Base. specialize_captured_class_factories
already fixes this for same-module callers by cloning a distinct class
per call site, but it only ever sees call sites in the SAME module as
the factory -- a caller in another module reaches the factory through
an ordinary cross-module call that pass never visits, so an exported
factory's own template stayed shared and got silently re-parented on
each call.

Give an exported factory real per-evaluation identity directly: when
its body is nothing but the single-statement
return class extends <expr> {} shape, upgrade the class's own
ClassRef to ClassExprFresh, exactly what the same class expression
would already lower to had it needed per-evaluation statics/captures/a
private brand. This closes the gap for every caller, local or
cross-module, without touching the existing same-module
specialization (a locally-cloned call site never calls the factory at
runtime at all, so it is unaffected).
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The inline transform now gives exported class factories fresh class identity on each evaluation when they directly return a dynamic-heritage class expression. New tests cover entry-module, cross-module, and repeated-call behavior.

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Dynamic Heritage Factory Identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Exported factory specialization
crates/perry-transform/src/inline/factory_specialize.rs, crates/perry-transform/src/inline/mod.rs, changelog.d/10622-exported-class-factory-identity.md
The new pass rewrites matching exported factories to use ClassExprFresh. The pass is re-exported and runs after existing factory specialization. The changelog documents the supported shape and limitations.
Factory identity regression coverage
test-files/gap_10455_class_expr_factory_identity_helper.ts, test-files/test_gap_10455_class_expr_factory_identity.ts
The helper exports two class factories. The test verifies distinct classes, correct instanceof results, and pairwise identity across repeated calls from entry and non-entry modules.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix: exported dynamic-heritage class factories now receive per-evaluation identity.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and covers the change, root cause, implementation scope, related issue, tests, validation, performance, and known limitations. It does not use every template heading or inc…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #10455 requires distinct class identity and correct dynamic parent selection for an exported factory in a non-entry module. The new fresh_export_dynamic_heritage_factories pass targets exporte…
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**exported** factory whose body is exactly `return class extends <expr>
{};` (no other members), upgrades the class's shared-template `ClassRef`
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Document the lowered-shape restriction.

fresh_export_dynamic_heritage_factories matches an exported function whose return is a two-part sequence: RegisterClassParentDynamic followed by the matching ClassRef. Non-computed, non-private instance members that add no captured values still produce this sequence. Replace {}; and “no other members” with a description of the required lowered sequence.

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In `@changelog.d/10622-exported-class-factory-identity.md` around lines 18 - 20,
Update the changelog description of fresh_export_dynamic_heritage_factories to
state that it requires the lowered return sequence RegisterClassParentDynamic
followed by its matching ClassRef. Remove the source-level “return class extends
<expr> {};” and “no other members” restriction, while preserving that the
factory must be exported and the ClassRef is upgraded to ClassExprFresh.

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