Define draw, hold, pin, family, whole and fence in the package doc

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## Layout
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doc.go the package doc, and the vocabulary the rest of it uses for a render and its fences
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
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// Package fejkdata generates fake data from recursive JSON templates.
//
// Data lives in JSON, not in Go. A generator starts from the shipped data set and
// layers any directories you add; folders and files become a dot-path namespace,
// then generate values by path:
//
// f, _ := fejkdata.New(fejkdata.WithSeed(42))
// f.Fake("sv_SE.address") // "Järvedsvägen 43\n891 77 Järved"
// f.Fake("sv_SE.address.locality") // "Sundbyberg": a second call draws afresh
//
// Several sources merge in order, the last winning a name clash, so custom data
// layers over the built-ins. The JSON template format is documented in the README.
//
// # Vocabulary
//
// The words the rest of the package uses, and the unit that owns each:
//
// - draw — one pick from a choice, or one row taken from a table, and the value
// 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.
// - 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.
// - draw group — `template.drawGroup`, which gives the reference paths under it
// draws of their own inside the render. `drawSet` holds the unnamed group's and
// each named one's, and `drawScope` says which one a template renders in.
// - pin — fixing which row of a table the render uses. `draws.pin` pins it and the
// 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`.
// - 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.
package fejkdata
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// Package fejkdata generates fake data from recursive JSON templates.
//
// Data lives in JSON, not in Go. A generator starts from the shipped data set and
// layers any directories you add; folders and files become a dot-path namespace,
// then generate values by path:
//
// f, _ := fejkdata.New(fejkdata.WithSeed(42))
// f.Fake("sv_SE.address") // "Järvedsvägen 43\n891 77 Järved"
// f.Fake("sv_SE.address.locality") // "Sundbyberg": a second call draws afresh
//
// Several sources merge in order, the last winning a name clash, so custom data
// layers over the built-ins. The JSON template format is documented in the README.
package fejkdata
import (
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This round, in order:
- Define the fence vocabulary where a reader of the code meets it: fence, hold, pin,
draw, draw group, expansion against render, family, whole. It exists only across five
README sections today, and every reader paid for it before the three files read at all.
- Say on the `template` struct which pass fills which field, and that `compileFormat`
runs a second time once `linkTemplateRefs` binds the references: nine of its fields
are written by four other files, and the order lives only in `loadData`'s body.