Run a node declaration without compiling it

`ops/*.yaml` plus `build.rs` has been the class-1 plugin format since the
declarative nodes landed — it was simply resolved at build time. Nothing about
a declaration requires the compiler: everything it produces is data plus a
WGSL string, and the composer already assembles WGSL at run time from whatever
operations are active. So this is not a new mechanism. It is the existing one,
loaded later (FR-PLG-2).

`DeclaredOp` implements `Operation` from an owned `Declaration` — one
interpreter over many declarations, where `build.rs` emits generated code per
node. The generated path stays, as FR-PLG-2 says it should: a generated
`match` is faster than an interpreted one, the built-ins' declared `tests:`
have to run under `cargo test`, and generated source is inspectable in a way
an interpreter's state is not.

**The reader is now one file, read by both.** `src/declared/decl.rs` and
`src/declared/expr.rs` are `#[path]`-included by `build.rs` as well as being
modules of the crate, and they produce a neutral `Declaration` that names no
Rust type. The build script's job is reduced to *rendering* that declaration
as Rust; `DeclaredOp` converts the same declaration into descriptors and
`Expr::eval` walks the same tree the renderer writes out. There is one
grammar, one set of validations and one set of error messages, so "a plugin is
the same kind of thing as a built-in" is structural rather than aspirational.

What remains genuinely written twice is the pair of backends — an arithmetic
node rendered as Rust here and evaluated there — and that is what the parity
test stands between. `tests/declared_parity.rs` parses every built-in
declaration at run time and asserts the composed WGSL is byte-for-byte what
the generated implementation produces, with the uniform block bit-for-bit
identical, at both ends of every parameter's range and at four interior
points; then again over the whole develop chain with the declared nodes
swapped in, which is what covers uniform slot ordering and helper
de-duplication between operations. A third test asserts the declared and
hand-written nodes partition `ops/` between them, so coverage cannot shrink
silently.

Bit-for-bit rather than within a tolerance, because a tolerance is where a
real divergence hides. The one thing that had to be got right for that to hold
is number literals: `expr::as_f32` rounds a decimal exactly once, through the
same shortest-round-trip text the compiler is handed, rather than rounding an
`f64` a second time.

Not in scope, and deliberately untagged: load-time WGSL validation
(FR-PLG-11), id namespacing, a plugin directory read at startup, and pass
nodes (FR-PLG-2a). Those are separate work, and tagging them from here would
be the overstatement the spec's own §7 warns about.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ license.workspace = true
dr-types.workspace = true
log.workspace = true
# A dependency of the library, not only of the build script, since FR-PLG-2:
# `src/declared/` reads the same declaration format at *load* time, so that an
# operation found in a file at startup is the same kind of thing as one found
# at compile time. The reader itself is one file shared by both.
serde_norway.workspace = true
# Nodes are declared in `ops/*.yaml` and compiled to Rust by `build.rs`
# (ARCH §5.7). The same reasoning as `ui/dr-ui`'s style.yaml: the declaration
# is the source of truth, the Rust is generated into OUT_DIR where it cannot