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virtual arms clarification
commit4c702c059cbc34e1e7fbbfed7f7e69f207140efa authorsyzygyzer <jon@tlon.io> dateThu 14 May 2020, 15:55 (6 years ago) parent6bfa63e
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158158##### Discussion
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160−The primary use of `+*` is to assign aliases to doors (see Examples below).
161−Aliases given by `+*` do not count towards the number of arms in the door, which
162−can be important for things like Gall app cores.`
160+The primary use of `+*` is to create aliases within doors (see Examples below).
161+Aliases given by `+*` do not count towards the number of arms in the door and
162+thus are also called "virtual arms", which
163+can be important for things like Gall app cores that require a fixed number of arms.
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164165Under the hood, `+*` gets compiled as `=*`'s. `+* foo bar` rewrites each `++`
165166arm beneath it in the core to include