New shell functions pi/1 and pi/3 instead of i/3
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Since the shell accepts the
<X.Y.Z>syntax for pids, it was surprising thati(X,Y,Z)worked, buti(<X.Y.Z>)did not, so you could not simply paste a pid. The namei/1was however in use by an undocumented function, and furthermore, thei/0info function produces a very different output fromi/3, so we instead introduce the new namespi/1andpi/3, deprecatingi/3.Example:
1> pi(<0.90.0>).
[{current_function,{c,pinfo,1}},
{initial_call,{erlang,apply,2}},
{status,running},
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