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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:24:19 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 3rd edition Inferno questions
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9fans is probably not the right place for many Inferno questions
beyond the `Inferno vs Plan9' variety.  I'll answer in 9fans anyway,
since it's not too busy at the moment,
but i'm cross-posting to comp.os.inferno and comp.lang.limbo.

pick has been in Limbo for several years, and was separately
documented at one point, but we added a description of pick
to the Limbo Reference Manual, and also documented the
type descriptor changes made ages ago (including extensions for pick)
in sbl(6) and the Dis VM document.

the sam*.b files you see implement an Inferno samterm that predates Acme under
Inferno, and  relies on running the other half of sam under the host o/s using cmd(3)
(see samstub.b).  as with a few other things, there was some discussion about including
it, but in the end we compromised: we left it in as an example,
and in case someone was interested enough to work on it,
but left it undocumented because we intend to concentrate effort
on Acme, rather than implementing a complete variant of sam under Inferno,
because of Acme's good integrating properties.