chore: follow-up fixes for commits merged to develop on 2026-05-19 / 2026-05-20

[Planeshifter]

Description

Follow-up fixes for commits merged to develop between 9559de0 (2026-05-19 18:52 -0400) and 8c6dabd (2026-05-20 03:14 -0700).

Three high-signal issues across the ndarray/base namespace:

@stdlib/ndarray/base/order

• Fixes a regression introduced in 10442350 (lib/node_modules/@stdlib/ndarray/base/order/lib/main.js) where unambiguously row-major strides (o === 1) were incorrectly coalesced with the ambiguous o === 3 branch and returned DEFAULT_ORDER, causing strictly row-major ndarray-likes to be misreported as column-major when defaults.order was set to 'column-major'; the branches are now split so o === 1 returns ROW_MAJOR, o === 2 returns COLUMN_MAJOR, and only o === 3 falls back to DEFAULT_ORDER.

@stdlib/ndarray/base/ndarraylike2descriptor

• Fix API heading in lib/node_modules/@stdlib/ndarray/base/ndarraylike2descriptor/README.md (cba1074): ndarraylike2descriptor takes a single ndarray-like argument x, not the descriptor field list ( dtype, buffer, shape, strides, offset, order ) copied from the descriptor() factory signature; corrected to #### ndarraylike2descriptor( x ) to match the d.ts, repl.txt, and the README's own Parameters section.

@stdlib/ndarray/base (namespace TOC)

• Fix ndarraylike2descriptor TOC signature in lib/node_modules/@stdlib/ndarray/base/README.md (71da5f4): the namespace entry incorrectly listed the full descriptor() factory parameters ( dtype, buffer, shape, strides, offset, order ) rather than the actual single-argument signature ( x ).

Related Issues

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Validation

Reviewed the 37 commits merged to develop in the window for:

• stdlib JavaScript / Markdown style-guide compliance (two independent passes)
• objective bugs in the introduced code (two independent passes — diff-only)
• incomplete renames across the isAlmostSameValue* → isAlmostSame* family
• signature / type / example consistency across new packages (assert/is-ndarray-descriptor, ndarray/base/ndarraylike2descriptor, blas/base/ndarray/gnrm2, stats/base/ndarray/dvariance, assert/is-almost-same-*)
• descriptor() argument-order consistency across the unary-reduce / unary-strided refactor
• benchmark format() placeholder/argument-count parity across the ndarray/base interpolation sweep

Deliberately excluded:

• Copyright-year deltas on renamed assert/is-almost-same-* packages (every file in those packages carries 2025 because the rename copied content from packages originally created in 2025; bumping copyright on a rename is not stdlib practice and would expand scope)
• is-ndarray-descriptor's loose hasProp(v, 'dtype') check (intentional per the inline comment on lib/main.js:54: dtypes may be strings, objects, or other)
• Any finding that required code outside the diff window to validate

Checklist

• Read, understood, and followed the contributing guidelines.

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• Code generation (e.g., when writing an implementation or fixing a bug)
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• Documentation (including examples)
• Research and understanding

Disclosure

This PR was authored by Claude Code on behalf of @Planeshifter as an automated follow-up review of commits merged to develop over the last 24 hours. Findings were produced by parallel reviewer agents, de-duplicated and re-verified against the diff before commits were applied. A human will audit and promote the PR out of draft.

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Coverage Report

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ndarray/base/ndarraylike2descriptor	$\color{green}100/100$ $\color{green}+100.00%$	$\color{green}3/3$ $\color{green}+100.00%$	$\color{green}1/1$ $\color{green}+100.00%$	$\color{green}100/100$ $\color{green}+100.00%$
ndarray/base/order	$\color{green}132/132$ $\color{green}+100.00%$	$\color{green}14/14$ $\color{green}+100.00%$	$\color{green}1/1$ $\color{green}+100.00%$	$\color{green}132/132$ $\color{green}+100.00%$

The above coverage report was generated for the changes in this PR.