Status: IN
Single-pass streaming occupies a distinct position in the three-strategy taxonomy: it is the only strategy that is self-sufficient — requiring neither preprocessing nor runtime validation — making it the most autonomous and minimal pattern. The other two strategies (sort-then-scan and closed-form reduction) are justified when problem structure demands ordering or structural reducibility, respectively.
Self-sufficiency (needs nothing external) within a closed taxonomy (no alternatives are self-sufficient) establishes streaming as the default — preprocessing is the exception requiring justification
Depends on (SL): streaming-is-self-sufficient-paradigm, three-strategies-cover-solution-taxonomy