Add jetc: a prototype JET-to-C++ compiler, plus the Tag API it needed

jetc (JetCore/jetc/) compiles a subset of JET template syntax - literal
text, $[...]/#[...] variable output, <set>, <if>/<else>, <for>, <while> -
into a standalone C++ program that links against CoreUtils and the same
JetCore tag-class library jet-2.0 itself uses. The static tag/text
structure becomes real C++ control flow (if/for/while), resolved once at
build time instead of being re-scanned character-by-character from raw
source on every request and, for loop bodies, on every single iteration
(confirmed by reading Tag::parseContainer - it re-tokenizes its container
text from scratch every time it runs, since a tag's parse and its
execution are the same pass in this codebase). Anything genuinely
dynamic - variable values, expr/value comparisons, loop bounds - still
calls into the existing runtime (Tag::getVariable/resolveKeyword,
jet::Operand) exactly as the interpreter does; compiling doesn't try to
eliminate that; only the repeated re-parsing of the template's own shape.

A <if type="..."> or <while type="..."> comparison type is resolved to
its C++ operator once at compile time (type is a literal attribute value
in practice, not runtime data) instead of being re-checked against six
string constants on every evaluation.

Any tag jetc doesn't have a codegen rule for (mysql, sql, call, include,
a <set> with a container body, etc.) is captured as its exact raw source
span and handed to the existing interpreter at compiled-program runtime
via the new Tag::interpretSpan(), so an unsupported construct degrades
gracefully instead of failing to compile - a real, if narrower, program
rather than requiring full tag coverage up front.

Tag.h/.cpp: made assignVariable public (parallel to the already-public
getVariable - generated code needs a write path without being a Tag
subclass) and added interpretSpan() as the fallback's entry point into
parseContainer.

Verified live: two representative templates (jetc/demo.jet, an if/for/set
walkthrough; jetc/demo2.jet, a nested <if> inside a <for>, a <while> that
mutates and rereads its own condition variable across iterations, and a
fallback-interpreted <comment> tag) both compile, link, run standalone,
and produce byte-identical output to jet-2.0 running the same source.
Building and running jetc/demo2.jet's <while> loop surfaced a real,
previously-unknown MString bug (fixed separately, see CoreUtils commit
6e4e463) along with a separate, already-existing bug in __while.cpp's
value1/value2/type form (unrelated to this compiler, not fixed here -
see project memory).

jetc/build-compiled.sh builds the compiler and a given .jet file's
compiled binary in one step; jetc/demo.jet and demo2.jet are kept as
worked examples. Known limitations: <set> with a container body isn't
modeled (falls back to interpretation); a fallback-interpreted tag
nested inside compiled control flow uses the template's single top-level
scope for parent/local context rather than a faithful per-level chain,
which only matters for legacy tags that rely on nested "local" scoping.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

jetc/JetParser.h

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+#ifndef __JetParser_h__
+#define __JetParser_h__
+
+#include "JetAST.h"
+#include <string>
+#include <map>
+#include <utility>
+
+namespace jetc {
+
+   // Standalone parser for a subset of the JET template grammar. Mirrors the
+   // character-level grammar implemented by JetCore's Tag::parseContainer /
+   // Tag::Tag (attribute scanning, same-tag-name nesting depth, the <if>
+   // <else> split) closely enough for well-formed templates, but is a fresh
+   // implementation - it does not reuse JetCore's Tag classes, since those
+   // fuse parsing and execution together (a real parse/execute split there
+   // is a separate, larger refactor). Anything outside the modeled subset
+   // (set/if/for/while/$[...]/literal text) is captured as an exact raw
+   // source span and left for the existing interpreter (Tag::interpretSpan)
+   // to run at compiled-program runtime, so unsupported constructs degrade
+   // gracefully instead of failing to compile.
+   class Parser {
+    public:
+      explicit Parser(const std::string &src) : s(src), pos(0) {}
+
+      std::vector<NodePtr> parseNodes();
+
+    private:
+      std::string s;
+      size_t pos;
+      size_t nextId = 0;
+
+      bool eof() const { return pos >= s.size(); }
+      bool starts(const std::string &lit) const;
+      static bool isNameChar(char c);
+      void skipWs();
+      std::string readName();
+      std::string peekTagName(size_t at) const;
+
+      bool matchTagOpen(const std::string &name, size_t at) const;
+      bool matchTagClose(const std::string &name, size_t at) const;
+
+      // p points at '<' of some tag's opening; advances p past its '>' or
+      // "/>", skipping quoted attribute values. Returns true if self-closing.
+      bool skipOpenTag(size_t &p) const;
+
+      std::map<std::string, std::string> parseAttrs(bool &hasContainer);
+
+      // Scans forward from bodyStart (just after the opening tag's '>') for
+      // tagName's matching close, tracking same-tag-name nesting depth and
+      // (if lookForElse) a depth==1 "<else>" split point.
+      // Returns {closePos, elsePos} (elsePos == npos if not found/not sought).
+      std::pair<size_t, size_t> scanBody(size_t bodyStart, const std::string &tagName, bool lookForElse);
+
+      std::vector<NodePtr> parseSub(size_t start, size_t end);
+
+      NodePtr parseVar();
+      NodePtr parseSet();
+      NodePtr parseIf();
+      NodePtr parseFor();
+      NodePtr parseWhile();
+      NodePtr parseFallback();
+
+      std::string newId(const std::string &prefix) { return prefix + std::to_string(nextId++) + "_"; }
+   };
+
+}
+
+#endif