E.11:9 - Consequences

Benefits. FPF gains a human-readable entry from working questions to direct patterns without losing the result and boundary support that matters. A few ordinary examples show that one pattern may answer a bounded difficulty; selected cards show that the language can sustain longer reasoning across pattern contributions. Readers can stop cheaply, inspect a small plausible set, and recover from wrong turns, while explicit non-exhaustive wording keeps the examples from becoming a coverage catalogue. README, Preface, ToC, local recognition, expanded cases, and retrieval keep distinct jobs, so useful entry value does not become a duplicate canon.

Costs. Maintainers must keep each public entry aligned with the direct pattern’s current result and boundary, and must repair its true consumers when those meanings change. A recurrent ambiguity or named later reliance may justify an exact expansion, worked case, or addressable comparison history; those deeper objects then need currentness care. Ordinary entries pay none of that record burden when readable prose is sufficient.