From 822c8c0a5d6ae11acce872eb5058e9d71c885b53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lilleman auf Larv <lilleman@larvit.se>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 02:12:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Name the path walks and steps by what each does:
 drawCallerPath, callerPathSteps, compiledPath, provePath, compileStep,
 childNamed, table.columnOrLinked, table.followStep and pathPos.fromRow

---
 arm.go            |  2 +-
 doc.go            |  2 +-
 docs/decisions.md | 10 ++++----
 format.go         |  2 +-
 path.go           | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 path_test.go      |  2 +-
 record.go         |  2 +-
 reference.go      |  2 +-
 render.go         |  8 +++---
 render_test.go    |  4 +--
 table.go          | 32 ++++++++++++------------
 todo.md           | 10 ++++----
 12 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arm.go b/arm.go
index 6970178..70c9ff6 100644
--- a/arm.go
+++ b/arm.go
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ func (t *template) compileArm(name string, targets map[*nameBinding]nameTarget)
 	}
 	target := targets[b]
 	full := append(target.tail[:len(target.tail):len(target.tail)], a.tail...)
-	if err := checkPathReaches(target.start, full, a.head); err != nil {
+	if err := provePath(target.start, full, a.head); err != nil {
 		return a, err
 	}
 	w := compilePath(target.start, full)
diff --git a/doc.go b/doc.go
index da3ab66..abc03dc 100644
--- a/doc.go
+++ b/doc.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ package fejkdata
 //     and {p.first} are read, the {first} that {p} renders has the key "first" under {p}'s
 //     key "". {p.first} addresses "first", so both read one draw.
 //   - pin — fixing which row of a table one path, or one named pick, uses:
-//     `pinSet`, `namedPick.pins`, `table.drawStep`.
+//     `pinSet`, `namedPick.pins`, `table.followStep`.
 //   - link — a table's tie to its parent table, each row to its parent row:
 //     `table.linkParent`.
 //   - family — a table and every table reaching it through a chain of parent
diff --git a/docs/decisions.md b/docs/decisions.md
index 035f4ce..0e6eb29 100644
--- a/docs/decisions.md
+++ b/docs/decisions.md
@@ -798,12 +798,12 @@ the direct chain is the one a reader can predict from the tables' parents.
 2026-09-30, larv-review on the comprehension round the maintainer approved on 2026-09-29;
 replaces "The path walks are separate loops".
 Goals 3 and 13: `drawSteps` draws every path from its steps, compiled when templates resolve, by
-`pathCheck` or, for a caller's path, by `probePath` into a stack buffer. Both take each
-step through `takeStep`, and differ only at a choice: the check walks every variant, the
-probe the first. On 2026-09-29 one loop over all three walks, switching on a mode field,
-leaked the check's leaves and errors with the draw's pins, arm and memo, since Go tracks a
+`compiledPath` or, for a caller's path, by `callerPathSteps` into a stack buffer. Both take each
+step through `compileStep`, and differ only at a choice: `compiledPath` walks every variant,
+`callerPathSteps` the first. On 2026-09-29 one loop over all three walks, switching on a mode field,
+leaked `compiledPath`'s leaves and errors with the draw's pins, arm and memo, since Go tracks a
 struct's fields as one, and a repeat of a reference path rose from 66 to 106 allocations.
-`drawSteps` and `takeStep` take their state as parameters and a step holds no node, so no
+`drawSteps` and `compileStep` take their state as parameters and a step holds no node, so no
 benchmark gained an allocation. Valid while Go's escape analysis tracks a struct's fields
 as one.
 
diff --git a/format.go b/format.go
index f311791..07e4511 100644
--- a/format.go
+++ b/format.go
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ func checkArm(name string, fields map[string]node, wholeToken bool) (missing boo
 		}
 		return true, fmt.Errorf("no field %q", a.head)
 	}
-	if err := checkPathReaches(field, a.tail, a.head); err != nil {
+	if err := provePath(field, a.tail, a.head); err != nil {
 		return false, fmt.Errorf("field %q: %w", a.head, err)
 	}
 	return false, nil
diff --git a/path.go b/path.go
index 7ec20d7..46c46a3 100644
--- a/path.go
+++ b/path.go
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/larvit/fejkdata/internal/invariant"
 )
 
-// stepInto is what seg names under n: a folder's entry or a template's field.
-func stepInto(n node, seg string) (node, error) {
+// childNamed is what seg names under n: a folder's entry or a template's field.
+func childNamed(n node, seg string) (node, error) {
 	switch {
 	case grammar.IsSelector(seg):
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s is not a table, so it has no row to select", grammar.SelectorOf(seg))
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func stepInto(n node, seg string) (node, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no field %q: %q is a column, and a cell holds no fields", seg, n.name())
 	case *nullItem:
 	default:
-		panic(invariant.Broken("stepInto has no case for node %T", n))
+		panic(invariant.Broken("childNamed has no case for node %T", n))
 	}
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("no field %q", seg)
 }
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ const (
 	stepParent // up to the table's parent, at the row its own row links to
 )
 
-// pathCheck proves a path reaches a node whichever way the draws go: every variant of a
+// compiledPath is a path proved to reach a node whichever way the draws go: every variant of a
 // choice carries the rest of it, and is walked, a selector names a row inside the
-// rows selected before it, and no level read carries a repeat. It compiles the steps
+// rows selected before it, and no level read carries a repeat. It holds the steps
 // a draw takes, and every leaf the path may render; level names the head in its errors.
-type pathCheck struct {
+type compiledPath struct {
 	pins   pinSet
 	level  string
 	tail   []string
@@ -77,18 +77,18 @@ type pathCheck struct {
 	leaves []node
 }
 
-func (w *pathCheck) run(n node) (node, error) {
+func (w *compiledPath) run(n node) (node, error) {
 	return w.walk(n, w.tail)
 }
 
-func (w *pathCheck) walk(n node, tail []string) (node, error) {
+func (w *compiledPath) walk(n node, tail []string) (node, error) {
 	at := pathPos{n: n, tail: tail}
 	for at.more() {
 		if c, ok := at.n.(*choice); ok {
 			return w.walkEvery(c, at.tail)
 		}
 		var err error
-		if w.steps, err = takeStep(&at, w.tail, w.level, w.steps, &w.pins); err != nil {
+		if w.steps, err = compileStep(&at, w.tail, w.level, w.steps, &w.pins); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
@@ -100,35 +100,35 @@ func repeatLevelError(level string) error {
 	return fmt.Errorf("the level %q carries a repeat, so a path cannot read one draw of it; read %q whole", level, level)
 }
 
-// pathPos is where a walk stands: the node reached, the tail left to walk from it, and route's
-// descended flag for it.
+// pathPos is where a walk stands: the node reached, the tail left to walk from it, and fromRow,
+// whether the walk entered n, a table, from a row of a table linked to it.
 type pathPos struct {
-	n         node
-	tail      []string
-	descended bool
+	n       node
+	tail    []string
+	fromRow bool
 }
 
-func (p pathPos) more() bool { return len(p.tail) > 0 || p.descended }
+func (p pathPos) more() bool { return len(p.tail) > 0 || p.fromRow }
 
-// takeStep takes the first step of at.tail from at.n, which must not be a choice, moves at past
+// compileStep takes the first step of at.tail from at.n, which must not be a choice, moves at past
 // it, and appends the step to steps: a field, or the route through a table. whole is the full
 // path; level is the prefix an error puts before it.
-func takeStep(at *pathPos, whole []string, level string, steps []pathStep, pins *pinSet) ([]pathStep, error) {
+func compileStep(at *pathPos, whole []string, level string, steps []pathStep, pins *pinSet) ([]pathStep, error) {
 	i := len(whole) - len(at.tail)
 	switch x := at.n.(type) {
 	case *table:
-		r, err := x.route(at.tail, at.descended)
+		r, err := x.route(at.tail, at.fromRow)
 		if err != nil {
 			return steps, err
 		}
-		*at = pathPos{n: r.next, tail: r.rest, descended: r.descends}
+		*at = pathPos{n: r.next, tail: r.rest, fromRow: r.nextLinked}
 		return routeSteps(steps, pins, x, r, i)
 	case *template:
 		if x.repeat > 1 && !grammar.IsSelector(at.tail[0]) {
 			return steps, repeatLevelError(join(level, strings.Join(whole[:i], ".")))
 		}
 	}
-	next, err := stepInto(at.n, at.tail[0])
+	next, err := childNamed(at.n, at.tail[0])
 	if err != nil {
 		return steps, err
 	}
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ func takeStep(at *pathPos, whole []string, level string, steps []pathStep, pins
 
 // walkEvery walks every variant and keeps the first one's steps: every variant carries
 // the rest of the path, so each compiles to the same steps past the choice.
-func (w *pathCheck) walkEvery(c *choice, tail []string) (node, error) {
+func (w *compiledPath) walkEvery(c *choice, tail []string) (node, error) {
 	if err := carriedByAll(c, tail); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ func (w *pathCheck) walkEvery(c *choice, tail []string) (node, error) {
 	return last, nil
 }
 
-// probePath proves a path reaches a node without drawing, appending to steps the steps a
-// draw takes. Where pathCheck walks every variant of a choice, it walks the first,
+// callerPathSteps proves a path reaches a node without drawing, appending to steps the steps a
+// draw takes. Where compiledPath walks every variant of a choice, it walks the first,
 // which carriedByAll lets stand for all.
-func probePath(n node, tail []string, steps []pathStep) ([]pathStep, error) {
+func callerPathSteps(n node, tail []string, steps []pathStep) ([]pathStep, error) {
 	var pins pinSet
 	for at := (pathPos{n: n, tail: tail}); at.more(); {
 		if c, ok := at.n.(*choice); ok {
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func probePath(n node, tail []string, steps []pathStep) ([]pathStep, error) {
 			continue
 		}
 		var err error
-		if steps, err = takeStep(&at, tail, "", steps, &pins); err != nil {
+		if steps, err = compileStep(&at, tail, "", steps, &pins); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ func drawSteps(s *drawstate.State, n node, steps []pathStep, pins *pinSet, memo
 		}
 		if st.kind == stepField {
 			var err error
-			if n, err = stepInto(n, st.name); err != nil {
+			if n, err = childNamed(n, st.name); err != nil {
 				panic(invariant.Broken("step %d: %v; a path's steps should have been compiled from the node they are drawn from", st.at, err))
 			}
 			continue
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ func drawSteps(s *drawstate.State, n node, steps []pathStep, pins *pinSet, memo
 		case st.kind == stepChild && climbed != nil:
 			pins, climbed = memo.stepDownPins(pins, climbed, levels, st.at), nil
 		}
-		n = t.drawStep(s, st, pins)
+		n = t.followStep(s, st, pins)
 	}
 	return n, pins
 }
@@ -241,14 +241,14 @@ func unreachableInChoice(c *choice, want string) error {
 	return fmt.Errorf("not every variant of this %d-way choice carries %q; all carry %v", len(c.items), want, offered)
 }
 
-func checkPathReaches(n node, tail []string, level string) error {
-	_, err := (&pathCheck{level: level, tail: tail}).run(n)
+func provePath(n node, tail []string, level string) error {
+	_, err := (&compiledPath{level: level, tail: tail}).run(n)
 	return err
 }
 
-// compilePath compiles a path checkPathReaches proved.
-func compilePath(n node, tail []string) pathCheck {
-	w := pathCheck{tail: tail}
+// compilePath compiles a path provePath proved.
+func compilePath(n node, tail []string) compiledPath {
+	w := compiledPath{tail: tail}
 	if _, err := w.run(n); err != nil {
 		panic(invariant.Broken("%s: %v; the path should have been proved before it was compiled", grammar.JoinSegments(tail), err))
 	}
diff --git a/path_test.go b/path_test.go
index dc43fab..5622dad 100644
--- a/path_test.go
+++ b/path_test.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ func TestPathCheckStopsAtAMissingSegment(t *testing.T) {
 	if leaves := compilePath(n, []string{"a", "b"}).leaves; len(leaves) != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("compilePath(a.b).leaves = %v, want the one leaf", leaves)
 	}
-	w := &pathCheck{tail: []string{"a", "nope", "deeper"}}
+	w := &compiledPath{tail: []string{"a", "nope", "deeper"}}
 	_, err := w.run(n)
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `no field "nope"`) {
 		t.Errorf("walk(a.nope.deeper) = %v, want the missing segment named", err)
diff --git a/record.go b/record.go
index 46b1935..5623b50 100644
--- a/record.go
+++ b/record.go
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ func (f *Generator) FakeRecord(path string) (*Record, error) {
 // tableRecord walks a path's tail from a table to the table whose row is the record, and that
 // row, selected or drawn.
 func tableRecord(s *drawstate.State, t *table, tail []string) (node, renderedRow, error) {
-	n, pins, err := descend(s, t, tail)
+	n, pins, err := drawCallerPath(s, t, tail)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, renderedRow{}, err
 	}
diff --git a/reference.go b/reference.go
index 0943897..22fa76f 100644
--- a/reference.go
+++ b/reference.go
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ func (t *template) resolveRefs(folder []string, label, category string, root map
 		if category != "" && head == "/"+category {
 			return refs, fmt.Errorf("%s: reference {%s}: names the category it sits in; read a sibling field as a path, or move the shared value into its own category and reference that", label, name)
 		}
-		if err := checkPathReaches(target, tail, head); err != nil {
+		if err := provePath(target, tail, head); err != nil {
 			return refs, fmt.Errorf("%s: reference {%s}: %w", label, name, err)
 		}
 		refs.categories[head] = target
diff --git a/render.go b/render.go
index 1cccd5b..077224d 100644
--- a/render.go
+++ b/render.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ func (f *Generator) Fake(path string) (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("fejkdata: %w", err)
 	}
 	f.loadShippedAt(segments)
-	n, pins, err := descend(f.drawState, &f.root, segments)
+	n, pins, err := drawCallerPath(f.drawState, &f.root, segments)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("fejkdata: %s: %w", path, err)
 	}
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ func (f *Generator) Fake(path string) (string, error) {
 	return render(f.drawState, n, env), nil
 }
 
-// descend walks a caller's path to the node it names, returning the rows its leaf renders in.
-func descend(s *drawstate.State, root node, segments []string) (node, pinSet, error) {
+// drawCallerPath walks a caller's path to the node it names, returning the rows its leaf renders in.
+func drawCallerPath(s *drawstate.State, root node, segments []string) (node, pinSet, error) {
 	// docs/decisions.md#a-path-is-walked-once-without-drawing-before-it-is-walked-for-real
 	var buf [16]pathStep
-	steps, err := probePath(root, segments, buf[:0])
+	steps, err := callerPathSteps(root, segments, buf[:0])
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, pinSet{}, err
 	}
diff --git a/render_test.go b/render_test.go
index 1f4844d..32051d5 100644
--- a/render_test.go
+++ b/render_test.go
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ var nodeSwitchSkips = map[string][]string{
 	"columnItems": {"folder", "table", "tableRow"},
 	"prove":       {"folder"},
 	"render":      {"folder"},
-	"stepInto":    {"choice", "table", "tableRow"},
+	"childNamed":  {"choice", "table", "tableRow"},
 }
 
 func TestNodeSwitchesHandleEveryKind(t *testing.T) {
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ func TestNodeSwitchesHandleEveryKind(t *testing.T) {
 			render(engine(1).drawState, n, renderEnv{frames: &frames, row: renderedRow{tbl, 0}})
 		},
 		"renderEdges": func(n node) { renderEdges(n) },
-		"stepInto":    func(n node) { _, _ = stepInto(n, "x") },
+		"childNamed":  func(n node) { _, _ = childNamed(n, "x") },
 	} {
 		mustPanic(t, name+" on an unhandled node", func() { call(&unhandledNode{}) })
 		for _, kind := range kinds {
diff --git a/table.go b/table.go
index 0012740..7459202 100644
--- a/table.go
+++ b/table.go
@@ -237,19 +237,19 @@ func (t *table) linkParent(siblings map[string]node) error {
 // tableRoute is how a path passes one table: the row it reads, by selector or
 // drawn, what it goes on into, and whether that is a linked table.
 type tableRoute struct {
-	sel      string
-	draw     bool
-	next     node
-	rest     []string
-	descends bool
-	up       bool
+	sel        string
+	draw       bool
+	next       node
+	rest       []string
+	nextLinked bool
+	up         bool
 }
 
-// route is how tail passes t. descended means the previous route stepped into t
+// route is how tail passes t. fromRow means the previous route stepped into t
 // from a row of an ancestor table, so t reads a row even where tail is empty; a
 // table reached otherwise, with no selector and an empty tail, is left to a render's
 // own draw.
-func (t *table) route(tail []string, descended bool) (tableRoute, error) {
+func (t *table) route(tail []string, fromRow bool) (tableRoute, error) {
 	sel, tail, err := t.selector(tail)
 	if err != nil {
 		return tableRoute{}, err
@@ -258,14 +258,14 @@ func (t *table) route(tail []string, descended bool) (tableRoute, error) {
 		if err := t.rows.ProveStepUp(tail[1:]); err != nil {
 			return tableRoute{}, err
 		}
-		return tableRoute{sel: sel, draw: sel == "", next: t.rows.Parent().Owner(), rest: tail[2:], descends: true, up: true}, nil
+		return tableRoute{sel: sel, draw: sel == "", next: t.rows.Parent().Owner(), rest: tail[2:], nextLinked: true, up: true}, nil
 	}
-	column, child, err := t.step(tail)
+	column, child, err := t.columnOrLinked(tail)
 	if err != nil {
 		return tableRoute{}, err
 	}
 	selected := sel != ""
-	readsRow := selected || descended || len(tail) > 0
+	readsRow := selected || fromRow || len(tail) > 0
 	// A selector further down pins this table by ancestry; drawing first could draw a row the
 	// selector is not inside.
 	pinnedBelow := grammar.HasSelector(tail)
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ func (t *table) route(tail []string, descended bool) (tableRoute, error) {
 	case len(tail) == 0:
 		r.next = t.rowNode
 	case child != nil:
-		r.next, r.rest, r.descends = child, tail[1:], true
+		r.next, r.rest, r.nextLinked = child, tail[1:], true
 	default:
 		r.next, r.rest = column, tail[1:]
 	}
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ func routeSteps(steps []pathStep, pins *pinSet, t *table, r tableRoute, at int)
 	return steps, nil
 }
 
-func (t *table) drawStep(s *drawstate.State, st pathStep, pins *pinSet) node {
+func (t *table) followStep(s *drawstate.State, st pathStep, pins *pinSet) node {
 	switch st.kind {
 	case stepSelect:
 		if err := pins.PinRow(t.rows, st.row); err != nil {
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ func (t *table) drawStep(s *drawstate.State, st pathStep, pins *pinSet) node {
 	case stepParent:
 		return t.rows.Parent().Owner()
 	}
-	panic(invariant.Broken("drawStep has no case for step kind %d", st.kind))
+	panic(invariant.Broken("followStep has no case for step kind %d", st.kind))
 }
 
 func (t *table) selector(tail []string) (sel string, rest []string, err error) {
@@ -348,8 +348,8 @@ func (t *table) selector(tail []string) (sel string, rest []string, err error) {
 	return sel, rest, nil
 }
 
-// step is what a tail's first segment names in t: a column, or a table linked to it.
-func (t *table) step(tail []string) (column node, child *table, err error) {
+// columnOrLinked is what a tail's first segment names in t: a column, or a table linked to it.
+func (t *table) columnOrLinked(tail []string) (column node, child *table, err error) {
 	if len(tail) == 0 {
 		return nil, nil, nil
 	}
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index e148fdf..396fd15 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 | 110 | 0.1.0 |  | **Refuse an empty segment in a path `Fake`, `FakeRecord` and the CLI take, as a reference does: `sv_SE.person.` reports `path has an empty segment`.** | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13.8 |
 | 79 | 0.1.0 | decision | **Beside a `--data-path`, load in `New` the user's categories, the shipped ones they override or read, and the shipped ones whose reads reach an overridden one; load the rest on first reach.** | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 12.9 |
 | 131 | 0.1.0 |  | **Move `frameStack` into `env.go`, beside the methods that push and search it, and move `nameTargets`, `addressedKeys` and `nameUses` from `resolve.go` into `name.go`.** | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3.2, 3.1 | 12.8 |
-| 132 | 0.1.0 |  | **Name the path walks and steps by what each does, so `descend`, `probePath`, `pathCheck`, `checkPathReaches`, `compilePath`, `takeStep`, `stepInto` and `table.step` can be told apart by name, `table.drawStep` stops sitting one letter from `drawSteps`, and `pathPos.descended` says what it holds.** | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3.3 | 11.8 |
+| 132 | 0.1.0 |  | **Name the path walks and steps by what each does, so `descend`, `probePath`, `pathCheck`, `checkPathReaches`, `compilePath`, `takeStep`, `childNamed` and `table.step` can be told apart by name, `table.drawStep` stops sitting one letter from `drawSteps`, and `pathPos.descended` says what it holds.** | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3.3 | 11.8 |
 | 134 | 0.1.0 |  | **Hold `nameBinding`'s target in a named field, so `b.target.tail` shows that `resolveTemplates` fills it.** | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3.3, 3.2 | 11.3 |
 | 136 | 0.1.0 |  | **Rename `grammar.NameRead` and `grammar.CheckName` for what they read and check, so a name in the engine is only a bound name.** | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3.3 | 11.3 |
 | 135 | 0.1.0 |  | **Choose `disagreement`'s message from one table over the two items' kinds.** | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3.2 | 10.3 |
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
 | 108 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Name item 26 in the decision "No builtin reads the clock, so a date is bounded by days, never by an age", as the item that ends its conflict with goal 4.** | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3.4 | 8.0 |
 | 14 | 0.3.0 |  | **Spell `misc.creditcard`'s digit runs `{digits(n)}`.** | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5.7 | 15.1 |
 | 38 | 0.3.0 | defect | **Compare `calcParser.binary`'s operator as a rune.** | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13.8 |
-| 45 | 0.3.0 |  | **Name the node a selector follows in `stepInto`'s refusal.** | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13.8 |
+| 45 | 0.3.0 |  | **Name the node a selector follows in `childNamed`'s refusal.** | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13.8 |
 | 49 | 0.3.0 |  | **Report a CRLF rows file holding only its header as having no rows.** | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13.8 |
 | 13 | 0.3.0 | defect | **Place xlsx cells by their `r` reference in `data-import/xlsx.py`.** | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13.7 |
 | 39 | 0.3.0 |  | **Stop the `columnKinds` suggestion naming a field's own kind or a narrower one.** | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13.5 |
@@ -299,9 +299,9 @@ The decision "With only the shipped set, a category loads on the first call reac
 
 Both inherited architects, in the panel and in the scoring run, ranked one change first: gather the runtime that keeps a name's pick in one file. `frameStack` sits in `pick.go` while `env.go` pushes and searches it, and the name steps of `resolveTemplates` sit apart from `name.go`. Revise the README's Layout block with it.
 
-### 132. Name the path walks and steps by what each does, so `descend`, `probePath`, `pathCheck`, `checkPathReaches`, `compilePath`, `takeStep`, `stepInto` and `table.step` can be told apart by name, `table.drawStep` stops sitting one letter from `drawSteps`, and `pathPos.descended` says what it holds.
+### 132. Name the path walks and steps by what each does, so `descend`, `probePath`, `pathCheck`, `checkPathReaches`, `compilePath`, `takeStep`, `childNamed` and `table.step` can be told apart by name, `table.drawStep` stops sitting one letter from `drawSteps`, and `pathPos.descended` says what it holds.
 
-Six of the nine seats of the 2026-10-07 panel named these names: five entry points walk a path, `descend`, `probePath`, `pathCheck`, `checkPathReaches` and `compilePath`, and five units with near names step through one, `takeStep`, `stepInto`, `table.step`, `table.drawStep` and `drawSteps`; and `pathPos.descended`'s doc, "route's descended flag for it", defines it by its reader.
+Six of the nine seats of the 2026-10-07 panel named these names: five entry points walk a path, `descend`, `probePath`, `pathCheck`, `checkPathReaches` and `compilePath`, and five units with near names step through one, `takeStep`, `childNamed`, `table.step`, `table.drawStep` and `drawSteps`; and `pathPos.descended`'s doc, "route's descended flag for it", defines it by its reader.
 
 ### 134. Hold `nameBinding`'s target in a named field, so `b.target.tail` shows that `resolveTemplates` fills it.
 
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ A `"repeat": 14` over `{digits(1)}` draws every 14-digit run with the odds `{dig
 
 `byte(p.rs[p.pos])` reads U+012B `ī` as `+`, so `{calc(a ī b)}` compiles as `a + b`.
 
-### 45. Name the node a selector follows in `stepInto`'s refusal.
+### 45. Name the node a selector follows in `childNamed`'s refusal.
 
 `sv_SE.person[1].first` answers `1 is not a table`.