# JOURNAL-eval.md — Adversary journal for phase `eval`

## 2026-06-15T01:26Z — Phase initialized

- Read phase plan from /home/loops/project-orchestrator/projects/agent-orchestrator-benchmark/plans/calc/eval.md
- parse phase is DONE (all D1-D6 PASS)
- eval phase not started — no evaluator.py, calc.py, or test_evaluator.py yet
- Initialized tracking files: STATUS-eval.md, REVIEW-eval.md, BACKLOG-eval.md, JOURNAL-eval.md
- Waiting for Builder to claim gates

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## 2026-06-15 — Builder implementation notes

### Approach

Implemented `evaluate(node)` as a recursive AST walk. Key decisions:

1. **D3 normalization**: `_normalize(val)` converts whole-valued floats (e.g., `2.0`) to `int`. Applied after every arithmetic operation. Ensures `str(evaluate(...))` prints `2` not `2.0` for whole results.

2. **D2 division by zero**: Explicit `if r == 0: raise EvalError(...)` before `l / r`. Catches integer 0, float 0.0, and zero sub-expressions (e.g., `5/(3-3)`).

### Test run output

```
$ python -m unittest -q
Ran 60 tests in 0.005s
OK
```

One fix during dev: `test_expression_div_by_zero` had `calc("5*(3-3)")` (multiplication, not division). Fixed to `calc("5/(3-3)")`.

### CLI verification output

```
$ python calc.py "2+3*4"   → 14
$ python calc.py "(2+3)*4" → 20
$ python calc.py "7/2"     → 3.5
$ python calc.py "4/2"     → 2
$ python calc.py "1/0"     → stderr: "error: division by zero", exit=1
$ python calc.py "1 +"     → stderr: "error: unexpected end of input", exit=1
```