Decide one name, one meaning, and file the names that break it

AGENTS.md

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ In [docs/decisions.md](docs/decisions.md):
 - A typed column's calc is refused unless proven
 - `Column` carries text, not a Go value
 - `hold` names what a draw is kept in, `draw` the draw itself
-- A function may not spell a method; two types may
+- One name, one meaning
 - The package stays flat
 - The performance gate asserts allocations, not wall-clock time
 - Rows live in a TSV, the shape in JSON

docs/decisions.md

@@ -307,13 +307,16 @@ writes as the load check proved it; a `Value any` would hand every caller a type
 Goal 2 wants a name to reach one unit, so a unit takes the stem of what it is, and a
 file the stem of the units it holds.
 
-## A function may not spell a method; two types may
+## One name, one meaning
 
-A call writes a method with its receiver and a function bare, so one name on both greps
+Two declarations of any kind — function, method, field, type — share a name only where
-as one unit, which is the reaching cost goal 2 counts, while the receiver before a
+they name one thing: an interface's method, `Fake` on each template kind, a field
-shared method name says which type answers. `TestNoFunctionSpellsAMethod` holds it. A
+holding what a same-named method returns, `renderScope.hold` answering with a `*hold`.
-type is outside the rule: `renderScope.hold` answers with a `*hold`, so the two spell
+A bare function never shares a name with a method, since grep cannot tell a bare call
-one unit, which no test can judge.
+from a method's; `TestNoFunctionSpellsAMethod` holds that, and review judges the rest,
+which is meaning no test can see. Serves goal 2: names that tell the truth, and reaching
+the unit behind a symptom without asking a person. Decided 2026-09-25 by Lilleman; valid
+while goal 2 counts reading cost.
 
 ## The package stays flat
 

todo.md

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ This round, in order:
 - Hold only the `{token}` grammar's tests in `format_test.go`: move the helpers seven
   other test files use (`engine`, `parse`, `compiled`, `mustRender`) and the weight,
   recursion and path-navigation tests to files named for what they test.
+- Give `rows` and `field` one meaning each, per the decision "One name, one meaning":
+  `categoryFiles.rows` returns a TSV file name where `table.rows` counts rows, and
+  `formatOps.field` compiles a `{field}` token where `structFields.field` reads a Go
+  struct field. Rename every other shared name that names two things — `walk`,
+  `column`, `expr` and `of` included.
 - Run the nine-seat panel again and file what it names here.
 
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