AGENTS.md

@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ In [docs/decisions.md](docs/decisions.md):
 - A table is a record of string columns
 - The key map is built at load, the rest on first draw
 - Two categories may name one TSV
-- The rows of a table are alternatives
 - A table never reaches its own family, by any route
 - Tables carrying token cells stay small
 - A path is walked once without drawing before it is walked for real

README.md

@@ -549,8 +549,9 @@ it, and a cell or format of a table that references a table of its own family, t
 any template, a `repeat` or a `drawGroup` included, since a bare read of the referencing
 table draws its row without pinning it, so the family would draw apart from that row:
 read the family from a template beside it, or add the value as a column. A cell's
-reads are the render's too; which pairs are weighed against each other is under
-[Decisions](docs/decisions.md#the-rows-of-a-table-are-alternatives).
+reads are the render's too, weighed against every read that renders with them: one read
+renders one row, so reads under different rows of one pinned table, whose ancestors pin
+with it, or of one table read whole, never render together.
 
 ### Options and fields
 

docs/decisions.md

@@ -452,16 +452,6 @@ rows twice, which is what a category over a register with two natural formats as
 a TSV nothing names stays a load error, since that one is a file forgotten rather than
 shared.
 
-## The rows of a table are alternatives
-
-Only one row renders per read, so within one read a cell in one row and a cell in
-another never meet, and each may select its own row of another table; the cells of one
-row, and whatever they reach, do meet, and so does the format beside them. Two reads
-meet unless they sit under different rows of one pinned table; pinning a row pins its
-ancestors too, so rows under different parents are alternatives as well. A table read
-whole draws its row apart from every pin, so the rows of one whole read are
-alternatives only to each other.
-
 ## A table never reaches its own family, by any route
 
 A `repeat` iteration and a `drawGroup` each draw apart on purpose, but a row that lists

drawfence.go

@@ -426,7 +426,6 @@ func conflict(r pathRead, err error) error {
 // alternatives reports whether two reads never render together: one read renders one row of a
 // table, so reads under different rows the walks pinned, or under different rows of one whole
 // draw, never meet.
-// docs/decisions.md#the-rows-of-a-table-are-alternatives
 func alternatives(a, b drawAt) bool {
 	return a.pins.differs(&b.pins) || a.wholePins.differs(&b.wholePins)
 }

todo.md

@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@ Self-sufficiency 5.6), every seat capped by Locality, and all nine naming
 
 This round, in order:
 
-- Delete the decision "The rows of a table are alternatives": it defines `alternatives`,
-  which its comment in `drawfence.go` already does. Point the README's "which pairs are
-  weighed against each other" at that comment's rule, stated in the README's Table
-  section, where it sends a reader to the log for the definition today.
 - Run the nine-seat panel again and file what it names here.
 
 ### Data