@@ -116,10 +116,8 @@ Hoon and Nock have several unusual properties:
116116 there are no cycles in Nock's memory model. Pointer equality is not
117117 exposed to the programmer. In practical Nock implementations, all
118118 data structures are what are elsewhere called "functional" or
119− "persistent" data structures, meaning they're immutable<sup>*</sup> and share
119+ "persistent" data structures, meaning they're immutable and share
120120 structure wherever possible.
121− <br/><small>*with the exception of "unifying
122− equality", which some runtimes provide as an optimization</small><br/>
123121
124122- **Homoiconic**. Code and data are represented the same way and can be
125123 converted to each other. Lisp dialects are also homoiconic, but Hoon