Concepts

Background reading. These pages explain why Phony works the way it does — once the ideas click, the PDL reference is just lookup.

• Determinism — why the same seed always gives the same data, and why that matters
• The 7 generator types — the full vocabulary, from algorithmic IDs to N-gram names to compositions
• Locales & the contribution model — how one generator produces locale-appropriate data

For the formal language specification, see the Spec.