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| author | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2021-09-30 22:42:15 +0000 |
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| committer | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2021-09-30 22:42:15 +0000 |
| commit | 9af9ab42126869b0be920db0224b7e1da58342a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 696cb996c35a75a15729f86ded875a0bcdffdc09 /doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md | |
| parent | d0ed11ca729344fd00251d0bc31f0c2f32d2c6a7 (diff) | |
| parent | f4f3203aa7c2fc9225a8ae220db25593066fb397 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'path-info' into ca-drv-exotic
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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md index ce31029cc..28fa23b58 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md @@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ Nix has the following basic data types: environment variable `NIX_PATH` will be searched for the given file or directory name. + Antiquotation is supported in any paths except those in angle brackets. + `./${foo}-${bar}.nix` is a more convenient way of writing + `./. + "/" + foo + "-" + bar + ".nix"` or `./. + "/${foo}-${bar}.nix"`. At + least one slash must appear *before* any antiquotations for this to be + recognized as a path. `a.${foo}/b.${bar}` is a syntactically valid division + operation. `./a.${foo}/b.${bar}` is a path. + - *Booleans* with values `true` and `false`. - The null value, denoted as `null`. |