Find a format's bound readers in one ordered scan

bound_test.go

@@ -214,6 +214,18 @@ func TestASharedNodeIsWalkedOnce(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestTheEarlierReaderIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
+	// A token and a calc operand can name one level. The one the format writes
+	// first is the one reported, so the error points at the same place a reader
+	// looking at the format would start.
+	_, err := New([]string{writeData(t, map[string]string{
+		"cat": `{"format":"{calc(p * 1)} {p} {p.first}","p":[{"format":"{first}","first":["1","2"]}]}`,
+	})})
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `calc operand "p"`) {
+		t.Fatalf("New = %v, want the calc operand named, being written first", err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestReferenceToAMatchingStringIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
 	// A literal renders one fixed string, so no draw of it can disagree with a
 	// held one. Two unrelated literals that merely spell the same text must not

calc.go

@@ -101,19 +101,29 @@ func calcPrep(args []string) callFn {
 func calcOperands(format string) []string {
 	var names []string
 	_ = eachToken(format, func(t ftoken) error {
-		if t.kind != 'b' {
+		if t.kind == 'b' {
-			return nil
+			names = append(names, calcTokenOperands(t.body)...)
-		}
-		if name, args, ok := funcCall(t.body); ok && name == "calc" && len(args) >= 1 {
-			if expr, err := parseCalc(args[0]); err == nil {
-				names = append(names, calcVars(expr)...)
-			}
 		}
 		return nil
 	})
 	return names
 }
 
+// calcTokenOperands lists the sibling-field names one {token} body reads, empty
+// for anything that is not a {calc(...)}. checkCalc reports an expression that does
+// not parse, so one that does not simply names nothing here.
+func calcTokenOperands(body string) []string {
+	name, args, ok := funcCall(body)
+	if !ok || name != "calc" || len(args) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	expr, err := parseCalc(args[0])
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return calcVars(expr)
+}
+
 // calcVars lists the field names an expression references, for the existence
 // check in checkCalc.
 func calcVars(n calcNode) []string {

calc_test.go

@@ -82,3 +82,18 @@ func TestCalcReproducible(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("calc not reproducible: %q != %q", a, b)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestCalcTokenOperandsReadsOnlyACalc pins what the helper answers for a body that
+// is not a calc, and for one whose expression does not parse: nothing, either way.
+// checkCalc is what reports a bad expression, so the callers that run after it
+// never meet one — but they must not have to depend on that order to be safe.
+func TestCalcTokenOperandsReadsOnlyACalc(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, body := range []string{"plain", "luhn()", "calc()", "calc(1 +)", "calc(()"} {
+		if got := calcTokenOperands(body); got != nil {
+			t.Errorf("calcTokenOperands(%q) = %v, want none", body, got)
+		}
+	}
+	if got := calcTokenOperands("calc(net * qty)"); len(got) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("calcTokenOperands(calc(net * qty)) = %v, want both operands", got)
+	}
+}

node.go

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ func compileTemplate(m map[string]any) (node, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	t.ops, t.grow, t.bound = compileOps(format)
-	if err := checkNoOverlap(t.ops, t.bound, format); err != nil {
+	if err := checkNoOverlap(format, t.bound); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	return t, nil

template.go

@@ -211,26 +211,10 @@ func splitArm(name string) arm {
 // expands it afresh, so their values disagree. One spelling, so there is nothing
 // to get wrong. Names are compared in sorted order, so which pair is reported
 // does not depend on where the tokens sit.
-func checkNoOverlap(ops []op, bound map[string]string, format string) error {
+func checkNoOverlap(format string, bound map[string]string) error {
-	var names []reader
+	names := boundReaders(format, bound)
-	for i := range ops {
+	// Stable over one format-order scan, so two readers of one name (a token and a
-		if ops[i].kind != 'f' {
+	// calc operand both naming "p") are reported as the format writes them.
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, a := range ops[i].arms {
-			if _, isBound := bound[a.key]; isBound {
-				names = append(names, reader{a.name, "token {" + a.name + "}"})
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	// A calc operand renders its field, so it names a level exactly as a token does.
-	for _, name := range calcOperands(format) {
-		if _, isBound := bound[name]; isBound {
-			names = append(names, reader{name, fmt.Sprintf("calc operand %q", name)})
-		}
-	}
-	// Stable, so two readers of one name (a token and a calc operand both naming
-	// "p") are reported in the order the format writes them.
 	sort.SliceStable(names, func(i, j int) bool { return names[i].name < names[j].name })
 	for i, level := range names {
 		for _, path := range names[i+1:] {
@@ -245,6 +229,33 @@ func checkNoOverlap(ops []op, bound map[string]string, format string) error {
 // reader is one way a format reaches a bound field, and how to name that spelling.
 type reader struct{ name, label string }
 
+// boundReaders lists every way a format reaches a bound field, in the order the
+// format writes them. A calc operand renders its field, so it names a level exactly
+// as a token does; one scan finds both, which is what puts them in one order.
+func boundReaders(format string, bound map[string]string) []reader {
+	var names []reader
+	_ = eachToken(format, func(t ftoken) error {
+		if t.kind != 'b' {
+			return nil
+		}
+		if _, _, isFunc := funcCall(t.body); isFunc {
+			for _, operand := range calcTokenOperands(t.body) {
+				if _, isBound := bound[operand]; isBound {
+					names = append(names, reader{operand, fmt.Sprintf("calc operand %q", operand)})
+				}
+			}
+			return nil
+		}
+		for _, a := range splitArms(t.body) {
+			if _, isBound := bound[a.key]; isBound {
+				names = append(names, reader{a.name, "token {" + a.name + "}"})
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	return names
+}
+
 // checkSegments rejects an unfinished path: "{a.}", "{.b}" and "{a..b}" each have
 // a segment naming nothing. A field really named "" would otherwise make them
 // resolve, so a typo would read as a path that worked.