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     </productionset>
     
   </sect1>
-  
-
-
-  <sect1>
-    <title>Semantics</title>
-
-
-    
-    <sect2>
-      <title>Built-in functions</title>
-
-      <para>
-        The Nix language provides the following built-in function
-        (<quote>primops</quote>):
-      </para>
-
-      <variablelist>
-
-        <varlistentry>
-          <term><function>import</function>
-          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
-          <listitem>
-            <para>
-              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
-              which must yield a path value.  The Nix expression
-              stored at this path in the file system is then read,
-              parsed, and evaluated.  Returns the result of the
-              evaluation of the Nix expression just read.
-            </para>
-
-            <para>
-              Example: <literal>import ./foo.nix</literal> evaluates
-              the expression stored in <filename>foo.nix</filename>
-              (in the directory containing the expression in which the
-              <function>import</function> occurs).
-            </para>
-          </listitem>
-        </varlistentry>
-
-        <varlistentry>
-          <term><function>derivation</function>
-          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
-          <listitem>
-            <para>
-              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
-              which must yield an attribute set.  [...]
-            </para>
-          </listitem>
-        </varlistentry>
-
-        <varlistentry>
-          <term><function>baseNameOf</function>
-          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
-          <listitem>
-            <para>
-              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>,
-              which must yield a string value, and returns a string
-              representing its <emphasis>base name</emphasis>.  This
-              is the substring following the last path separator
-              (<literal>/</literal>).
-            </para>
-
-            <para>
-              Example: <literal>baseNameOf "/foo/bar"</literal>
-              returns <literal>"bar"</literal>, and
-              <literal>baseNameOf "/foo/bar/"</literal> returns
-              <literal>""</literal>.
-            </para>
-          </listitem>
-        </varlistentry>
-
-        <varlistentry>
-          <term><function>toString</function>
-          <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
-          <listitem>
-            <para>
-              Evaluates the expression <replaceable>e</replaceable>
-              and coerces it into a string, if possible.  Only
-              strings, paths, and URIs can be so coerced.
-            </para>
-
-            <para>
-              Example: <literal>toString
-              http://www.cs.uu.nl/</literal> returns
-              <literal>"http://www.cs.uu.nl/"</literal>.
-            </para>
-          </listitem>
-        </varlistentry>
-            
-      </variablelist>
-
-    </sect2>
-
-  </sect1>
-  
 
 </appendix>