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E-CHANNEL-INSIDE-PROGRAM — retired

Retired in v0.3 Wave 1. The <channel> placement direction was reversed; the canonical error code is now E-CHANNEL-OUTSIDE-PROGRAM .

What changed (2026-05-12, v0.3 Wave 1)

Pre-v0.3: channels lived at file top level, sibling of <program>. A channel nested inside <program> fired E-CHANNEL-INSIDE-PROGRAM.

v0.3 onward (per S87 Insight 30): channels are application-scoped, so the canonical placement is INSIDE <program> (sibling of <page>). A channel at file top level when <program> is present is the new violation — E-CHANNEL-OUTSIDE-PROGRAM. Pure channel-only module files (no <program>) may still declare a <channel> at file top.

If you're hitting this code in a current compiler, you're either on a stale release or your source predates v0.3. Run scrml migrate on the source — the migration tooling rewrites the placement automatically.

→ Current code: E-CHANNEL-OUTSIDE-PROGRAM

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