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# Wings

`[%wing p=(list limb)]`

A wing is a limb search path into the subject.

## Produces <a href="#produces" id="produces"></a>

A wing is a list of limbs (including a trivial list of one limb). The limbs are resolved in succession. The result of the last limb resolution is the value produced by the wing expression.

## Syntax <a href="#syntax" id="syntax"></a>

Irregular: `a.b.c`. Read this as '`a` in `b` in `c`'. Finds limb `a` within limb `b` within limb `c` of the subject.

## Discussion <a href="#discussion" id="discussion"></a>

Intuitively, Hoon wings are written in the opposite order from attribute dot-paths in most languages. Hoon `a.b.c` is Java's `c.b.a`; it means "a within b within c."

Any item in the wing can resolve to a leg (fragment) or arm (computation). But if a non-terminal item in the wing would resolve to an arm, it resolves instead to the subject of the arm -- in other words, the core exporting that name.

The mysterious idiom `..b` produces the leg `.b` if `.b` is a leg; the core exporting `.b` if `.b` is an arm. Since `.` is the same limb as `+`, `..b` is the same wing as `+1.foo`.

## Examples <a href="#examples" id="examples"></a>

```
~zod:dojo> =a [fod=3 bat=[baz=1 moo=2]]

~zod:dojo> bat.a
[baz=1 moo=2]

~zod:dojo> moo.bat.a
2
```

## Wing Resolution <a href="#wing-resolution" id="wing-resolution"></a>

There are two common syntaxes used to resolve a wing path into the current subject: `.` dot and `:` col.

* `.` dot syntax, as `c.b.a`, resolves the wing path into the subject at the right hand using Nock 0 (or possibly Nock 9 or Nock 10 depending on the expression).

  ```hoon
  > !,(*hoon c.b.a)
  [%wing p=~[%c %b %a]]
  ```
* The `:` col operator expands to a `=>` tisgar to resolve the wing path against its right-hand side as the subject. This can be a Nock 7 or possibly optimized by the compiler to a Nock 0.

  ```hoon
  > !,(*hoon c:b:a)
  [%tsgl p=[%wing p=~[%c]] q=[%tsgl p=[%wing p=~[%b]] q=[%wing p=~[%a]]]]
  ```


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