Name every render start, and let no backticked spelling go unchecked

README.md

@@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ the Development section below, and who ships a register the four above then draw
 ## Layout
 
 ```
-doc.go          the package doc, and the vocabulary the rest of it uses for a render and its fences
+doc.go          the package doc, and the vocabulary the package is written in
 fejkdata.go     Generator, New, options, the embedded data set, List
 node.go         the node model and JSON -> node compilation
 table.go        tables: the rows TSV, its options and links, row selection and draws

doc.go

@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@
 //     the pick produced: `pick` and `drawn` settle a choice, `table.draw` a row, and
 //     `draw` carries what a read produced.
 //   - expansion — one render of one format, by `expand`. A nested template is an
-//     expansion of its own, and so is each iteration of a `template.repeat`.
-//   - render — one `Fake` call or one record, started by `renderOnce` where nothing
-//     outer started it. It owns one `drawSet`, so it is what a reference draw spans.
+//     expansion of its own.
+//   - render — what owns one `drawSet`, and so what one reference draw spans:
+//     `Generator.Fake`, `FakeRecord`, `FakeStruct`, `Template.Fake` and
+//     `RecordTemplate.Fake` each start one, as does `expandAnew` per iteration of a
+//     `template.repeat` — an iteration is an expansion and a render of its own.
 //   - hold — keeping one draw of a name, so every route to it reads that value.
 //     `template.held` lists what an expansion holds, `draws` keeps them and
 //     `readField` reads through it; a reference path is held for the whole render.
@@ -32,10 +34,11 @@
 //     rows of its ancestors, and `draws.rowOf` draws one where none is pinned.
 //   - family — a table and every table reaching it through a chain of
 //     `table.parentT`, named by the root that chain ends at: `table.family`.
-//   - whole — a read that lands on a `row`, so the table's format renders every
-//     column of it: `tableRead.whole`.
+//   - whole — a read that lands on a `row`, so the row renders through its table's
+//     format: `tableRead.whole` says a read did, `table.whole` is the node.
 //   - fence — a load-time check refusing data that two routes to one draw would
-//     disagree in. Every one runs in `New`, which is why `Fake` cannot fail on
-//     loaded data: `heldCheck` over an expansion's held names, `drawCheck` over a
-//     render's reference paths, and `checkFamilies` over the rows they pin.
+//     disagree in, which is why a render cannot fail: `heldCheck` over an
+//     expansion's held names, `drawCheck` over a render's reference paths, and
+//     `checkFamilies` over the rows they pin. `New` runs them over the data set,
+//     `NewTemplate` and `FakeStruct` over what those compile.
 package fejkdata

doc_test.go

@@ -2,18 +2,20 @@ package fejkdata
 
 import (
 	"go/ast"
+	"go/build"
 	"go/parser"
 	"go/token"
-	"os"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
-var backticked = regexp.MustCompile("`([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*(?:\\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)?)`")
+// Every backtick in the Vocabulary is a symbol, so an unrecognised spelling fails
+// rather than going unchecked.
+var backticked = regexp.MustCompile("`([^`]+)`")
 
-// TestVocabularyNamesDeclaredSymbols proves every symbol the package doc's Vocabulary
-// names is declared here, so a renamed unit renames its entry with it.
+// TestVocabularyNamesDeclaredSymbols proves the package doc's Vocabulary names
+// symbols this package declares, so a renamed unit renames its entry with it.
 func TestVocabularyNamesDeclaredSymbols(t *testing.T) {
 	files := sourceFiles(t)
 	declared := declaredSymbols(files)
@@ -24,21 +26,15 @@ func TestVocabularyNamesDeclaredSymbols(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// sourceFiles parses the package's own files, the tests left out: the Vocabulary
-// indexes what ships, not what proves it.
 func sourceFiles(t *testing.T) []*ast.File {
 	t.Helper()
-	entries, err := os.ReadDir(".")
+	pkg, err := build.ImportDir(".", 0)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("read the package directory: %v", err)
 	}
 	fset := token.NewFileSet()
 	var files []*ast.File
-	for _, e := range entries {
-		name := e.Name()
-		if !strings.HasSuffix(name, ".go") || strings.HasSuffix(name, "_test.go") {
-			continue
-		}
+	for _, name := range pkg.GoFiles {
 		f, err := parser.ParseFile(fset, name, nil, parser.ParseComments)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("parse %s: %v", name, err)
@@ -48,7 +44,6 @@ func sourceFiles(t *testing.T) []*ast.File {
 	return files
 }
 
-// vocabulary is the package doc from its Vocabulary heading on.
 func vocabulary(t *testing.T, files []*ast.File) string {
 	t.Helper()
 	for _, f := range files {
@@ -63,45 +58,57 @@ func vocabulary(t *testing.T, files []*ast.File) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
-// declaredSymbols is every name the package declares, a method and a struct field
-// under its type as well: fence, draws.pin, tableRead.whole.
+// declaredSymbols is every name the package declares at the top level, a method and
+// a struct field keyed under its type: draws.pin, tableRead.whole. A name declared
+// inside a function body is not one a Vocabulary entry may name.
 func declaredSymbols(files []*ast.File) map[string]bool {
 	names := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, f := range files {
-		ast.Inspect(f, func(n ast.Node) bool {
-			switch d := n.(type) {
+		for _, decl := range f.Decls {
+			switch d := decl.(type) {
 			case *ast.FuncDecl:
 				names[d.Name.Name] = true
-				if d.Recv != nil {
-					names[receiverType(d.Recv)+"."+d.Name.Name] = true
-				}
-			case *ast.TypeSpec:
-				names[d.Name.Name] = true
-				addFields(names, d)
-			case *ast.ValueSpec:
-				for _, id := range d.Names {
-					names[id.Name] = true
+				if recv := receiverType(d.Recv); recv != "" {
+					names[recv+"."+d.Name.Name] = true
 				}
+			case *ast.GenDecl:
+				addSpecs(names, d)
 			}
-			return true
-		})
+		}
 	}
 	return names
 }
 
-func addFields(names map[string]bool, d *ast.TypeSpec) {
-	s, isStruct := d.Type.(*ast.StructType)
+func addSpecs(names map[string]bool, d *ast.GenDecl) {
+	for _, spec := range d.Specs {
+		switch s := spec.(type) {
+		case *ast.TypeSpec:
+			names[s.Name.Name] = true
+			addFields(names, s)
+		case *ast.ValueSpec:
+			for _, id := range s.Names {
+				names[id.Name] = true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func addFields(names map[string]bool, s *ast.TypeSpec) {
+	st, isStruct := s.Type.(*ast.StructType)
 	if !isStruct {
 		return
 	}
-	for _, field := range s.Fields.List {
+	for _, field := range st.Fields.List {
 		for _, id := range field.Names {
-			names[d.Name.Name+"."+id.Name] = true
+			names[s.Name.Name+"."+id.Name] = true
 		}
 	}
 }
 
 func receiverType(recv *ast.FieldList) string {
+	if recv == nil || len(recv.List) == 0 {
+		return ""
+	}
 	e := recv.List[0].Type
 	if star, isPointer := e.(*ast.StarExpr); isPointer {
 		e = star.X