The reason given was wrong. A dot path did reach an empty-named field:
Fake("a.") returned it, Fake("a.b.") returned a nested one, and {..a.} bound
it. What was true is narrower — List never offered it, because an empty name
is no path segment — so the engine accepted spellings it would not advertise.
The message, the test comment and the README say that instead.
Two things the rejection finished off:
A {} token still reported "no field \"\"", pointing at a fix the loader now
rejects — two errors for one rule. It is told the name can never exist, like
an option token already is.
addressable is dead: both halves of "not empty and no dot" are now rejected
where a name is authored. Mutating it to panic leaves the suite green here
and panics on main, so it was live and is not. Keeping it would preserve the
silent-hiding this change removes — List quietly omitting a name rather than
New refusing it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A field named "" loads, and a bare {} token renders it, but no dot path can
reach it — List hides it and Fake cannot ask for it. {a.} is already rejected
for the same reason, so the two spellings disagree about the same mistake.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Widening the fence used containment for both kinds of hold, which is right
for a level a path reads and wrong for a sibling a calc reads. A path may
read into anything the level contains; an operand's draw fixes only the value
it renders. So containment rejects a reference to a sibling the operand never
renders, which loads fine today and cannot disagree, and misses a reference
reaching what the operand renders through, which disagreed in 20 of 40 draws.
Also pins the repeated reference arm, the one kind that reaches the repeat
check by passing the per-arm checks rather than falling through them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
{..|..} reported a repeated arm rather than a reference with no path, and
{|} reported one rather than a missing field. Both are load errors either
way, but the repeat is a consequence of the real mistake, so the real one
should be what the author reads.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
{a|a|b} skews an alternation three to one, an undocumented third way to
weight beside a choice's weight and a repeated choice entry. These pin its
rejection, and one accepted case fixes the boundary: {x}{x} is two tokens,
so it stays two independent draws.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A dot is already rejected in a category, folder or field name. The token
grammar reserves three more characters: '|' separates a token's arms, '('
opens a function call, and '}' ends the token. A name carrying one resolves
by dot path and is advertised by List, yet no format can name it.
These pin the rejection, and one accepted case fixes the boundary: ')' on
its own is spellable, so it stays legal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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