Answer item 162: a name is a lexical closure, two spellings stay refused for their two readings, and items 164 to 166 plan the three that load

README.md

@@ -544,7 +544,8 @@ in a cell draws digits and `{/misc.uuid}` reads a reference, while `{name}` in a
 is refused, since a cell has no sibling. Each cell may select its own row of another
 table, `{/misc.currency[SEK].symbol}` on one row and `{/misc.currency[EUR].symbol}`
 on the next, since only one row renders. `New` proves the header, the options and every
-cell token, and refuses a key that is empty or repeats, a weight that is negative, not
+cell token, and refuses a JSON key other than `format`, `rows`, `key`, `name`, `weight` and `parent`,
+which could be a field or an option a table does not take, a key that is empty or repeats, a weight that is negative, not
 a number or too close to `0` to tell from it, every weight `0` across the table or inside one parent row, and a key or name holding `[`, `]`, `{`, `}`,
 `"` or `|`, which a selector cannot spell; `New` maps the keys, and a name or parent column
 is mapped on the first draw that selects by name or descends through the table. A `name` needs a `key`, since a name naming several rows is reported by
@@ -786,7 +787,8 @@ Refused at `New`, each error naming what to write instead:
 - a read of a name inside the field bound to it: read it outside that field;
 - reading a name outside the choice item that binds it, since the other items leave it
   unbound;
-- a path through a name that selects a row;
+- a path through a name that selects a row, which could mean that row whatever the name
+  picked, or that row only inside it;
 - `{n}` beside `{n.w}` where `n`'s category reads `w` twice, as in `{w}-{w}` or
   `{w.a} {w.b}`;
 - a binding in a table's format or cell.

docs/decisions.md

@@ -835,6 +835,12 @@ the same whoever references it. Such a read opens the frames around where it lan
 name from its pick's memo, so `{n}` and `{n.path}` read one pick of each name inside, and a
 reference or `Fake` fresh ones.
 
+A name is a closure: it reaches every template nested inside the scope binding it, its
+fields, choice items and repeats, and keeps one pick through the draw, while a name bound
+inside a repeat picks anew on each iteration. It never reaches into a category a reference
+enters. A name an enclosing scope binds may not be bound again, so no name shadows another.
+The maintainer ruled so on 2026-10-09.
+
 A pick keeps only the levels a read of the name addresses, so a template draws the same way
 under a name as anywhere else (goal 5.2). A read of a name bound to a field stays in the
 category's frames, since the field sits inside it.

todo.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 `Bar = 9`
 
-`Next ID = 164`
+`Next ID = 167`
 
 | Goal | W |
 |---|---|
@@ -74,12 +74,14 @@
 | 163 | 0.1.0 |  | **Lift the CLI's `--repeat` cap, since the CLI streams each render, and give the builtins' count and decimal caps a technical reason in the README.** | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2, 5.7 | 24.8 |
 | 57 | 0.1.0 |  | **Rewrite `CHANGELOG.md`'s `[Unreleased]` as what v0.1.0 holds.** | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1.1 | 22.5 |
 | 153 | 0.1.0 | decision | **Run the nine-seat comprehension panel and the scoring run again once items 145 to 152 and item 10 have merged, and file what the panel names.** | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 20.4 |
+| 164 | 0.1.0 |  | **Let a table's format or a cell bind a name, which lives in that format or cell and keeps one pick through the draw.** | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4.1, 5.3 | 19.4 |
 | 157 | 0.1.0 |  | **Show in the README's CLI section how PowerShell and cmd.exe pipe a template, one line per shell family.** | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7.2 | 17.1 |
 | 89 | 0.1.0 |  | **Fail `New` without `WithSeed`, naming the option, and seed the CLI from the system.** | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 10.1 | 16.0 |
 | 145 | 0.1.0 |  | **Move `doc.go`'s definitions of a level, a pick key and an addressed key, with their worked example, to `pickKey` in `pick.go`, and gather `levelKeys`, `addressedKeys`, `renderEnv.keeps` and `readField`'s kept read beside `readUnder`, so a reader follows a named read in one file.** | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 3.4, 3.2 | 15.4 |
+| 165 | 0.1.0 |  | **Let a table carry `name` with neither `key` nor `parent`, and list the rows a name matches by their line where it matches several.** | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5.7 | 15.1 |
 | 127 | 0.1.0 |  | **Give a Swedish street only postal codes whose delivery digit means street or rural delivery, dropping codes whose delivery digit is 9, or record why they stay.** | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14.4 |
-| 162 | 0.1.0 | question | **Decide whether each of five spellings loads under goal 5.7: a binding in a table's format or cell, a path through a name that selects a row, an unknown key in a table object, a table `name` with neither `key` nor `parent`, and a key or name no selector can spell.** | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5.7 | 14.1 |
 | 110 | 0.1.0 |  | **Refuse an empty segment in a path `Fake` and `FakeRecord` take, as a reference does: `sv_SE.person.` reports `path has an empty segment`.** | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13.8 |
+| 166 | 0.1.0 |  | **Let a key or name cell hold a bracket, a brace, a double quote or a pipe, so the table loads, its row draws at random, and only a selector cannot reach it.** | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5.7 | 13.1 |
 | 10 | 0.1.0 |  | **Test that every node kind reaches each switch over node kinds.** | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3.2 | 13.1 |
 | 148 | 0.1.0 |  | **State in `geo.py` the locality row each country's script hands it, and meet the fence that every parent row has a child row in one shared step.** | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2.1, 3.2 | 12.6 |
 | 146 | 0.1.0 |  | **Move `sharedPaths` and `subPaths` from `list.go` beside `carriedByAll` in `path.go`, and `join` beside `sortedNames` in `sorted.go`.** | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3.1, 3.2 | 11.3 |
@@ -272,6 +274,10 @@ Nothing has shipped, so "no longer paths", "where it used to fail" and "where it
 
 The decision "comprehension floor: every dimension and the overall at 7.0 or above" holds the scores this run is measured against.
 
+### 164. Let a table's format or a cell bind a name, which lives in that format or cell and keeps one pick through the draw.
+
+The maintainer answered item 162 on 2026-10-09: a name is a lexical closure, as the decision "A name lives in the category binding it, or in the repeat or choice item binding it, and is drawn on its first read" now states. Today `table.go` refuses `{/sv_SE.person as p}{p.first} {p.last}` in a cell with `a table binds no name`. Revise that decision's title and the README's Names list with it.
+
 ### 157. Show in the README's CLI section how PowerShell and cmd.exe pipe a template, one line per shell family.
 
 Split from item 129. cmd.exe's `echo` keeps its quotes and a trailing space, so `echo {/users} | fejkdata` sends `{/users} ` and stops naming the record.
@@ -284,18 +290,22 @@ Goal 10.1 has the caller supply the seed, and today `New` without `WithSeed` see
 
 All 13 seats of the 2026-10-07 panel and scoring run on ad59967 again named the named-pick read path hardest, and twelve kept `doc.go`'s vocabulary open beside `pick.go`, `env.go` and `namefence.go` to follow it. Load builds a pick key in `levelKeys` (`arm.go`) and `addressedKeys` (`name.go`), and render builds the same key in `keeps` (`env.go`) and `readUnder` (`pick.go`); five seats named the two sides agreeing by hand as the unit they least want to change. `readUnder`'s loop stops one level short and its next line builds that level's key the same way, which one seat searched for a difference. Update the README's Layout block, and leave `doc.go` a one-line entry per term naming `pickKey`.
 
+### 165. Let a table carry `name` with neither `key` nor `parent`, and list the rows a name matches by their line where it matches several.
+
+The maintainer answered item 162 on 2026-10-09. Today `bindOptions` in `internal/rows` refuses such a table, because the ambiguity error lists rows by key; `country[Sweden]` means one row where names are unique.
+
 ### 127. Give a Swedish street only postal codes whose delivery digit means street or rural delivery, dropping codes whose delivery digit is 9, or record why they stay.
 
 `docs/research/research-geo-se.md` reads delivery digit 0 or 1 as boxes, 2–4 and 6–7 as street, 5 as rural, 8 as reply mail and 9 as competitions or temporary, with exceptions in big cities. `street_delivery` drops 0, 1 and 8 and keeps 9. The panel of 2026-10-05 found it; whether a shipped street carries a 9 code is unchecked.
 
-### 162. Decide whether each of five spellings loads under goal 5.7: a binding in a table's format or cell, a path through a name that selects a row, an unknown key in a table object, a table `name` with neither `key` nor `parent`, and a key or name no selector can spell.
-
-Each stays refused today. Goal 5.7 loads whatever is well-formed and means one thing; for each, what it would mean is not settled. An unknown key such as `repeat` on a table object would silently not repeat. Found while dropping the refusals that guessed at mistakes.
-
 ### 110. Refuse an empty segment in a path `Fake` and `FakeRecord` take, as a reference does: `sv_SE.person.` reports `path has an empty segment`.
 
 Today `Fake("sv_SE.person.")` reports `no field ""`, while `{/sv_SE.person.}` reports `path has an empty segment`. `grammar.CheckSegments` is the check a reference, a sibling path and a step up `..` run.
 
+### 166. Let a key or name cell hold a bracket, a brace, a double quote or a pipe, so the table loads, its row draws at random, and only a selector cannot reach it.
+
+The maintainer answered item 162 on 2026-10-09. Today `checkSelectorCells` in `internal/rows` refuses the whole table; a path naming such a key still fails to parse.
+
 ### 10. Test that every node kind reaches each switch over node kinds.
 
 Today nine, from `render` to `columnItems`, must agree, and only `render` and `renderEdges` say so. Three architect seats of the 2026-10-07 panel and scoring run on ad59967 named the switches kept in step by hand.