# Limbs and wings

One feature Hoon lacks: a context that isn't a first-class value. Hoon has no concept of scope, environment, etc. An expression has exactly one data source, the subject, a noun like any other.

* [Limbs](/hoon/limbs/limb.md) - A limb is used to resolve to a piece of data in the subject. A wing is thus a resolution path into the subject.
* [Wings](/hoon/limbs/wing.md) - In Hoon we use 'wings' to extract information from the subject. A wing is a list of limbs (including a trivial list of one limb).


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