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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-10-11 21:59:33 +0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-10-11 21:59:33 +0000
commit7d4567f2cc16959e827f542e6de76a28ff11789e (patch)
treefc68581e60d9f29359173ce8b5398d36b9ee125c /doc/manual
parentb4e012ab4d8ef2f9091c1e8d14e059b38a2e4529 (diff)
* Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just another
kind of notation for strings.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index e8d84164e..b8d097ae2 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -649,16 +649,20 @@ configureFlags = "
some of which in turn contain expressions (e.g.,
<literal>${mesa}</literal>).</para>
+ <para>As a convenience, <emphasis>URIs</emphasis> as defined in
+ appendix B of <link
+ xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC 2396</link>
+ can be written <emphasis>as is</emphasis>, without quotes. For
+ instance, the string
+ <literal>"https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2"</literal>
+ can also be written as
+ <literal>https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
+
</listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Integers</emphasis>, e.g.,
<literal>123</literal>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><emphasis>URIs</emphasis> as defined in appendix B
- of <link xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC
- 2396</link>, e.g.,
- <literal>https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2</literal>.</para></listitem>
-
<listitem><para><emphasis>Paths</emphasis>, e.g.,
<filename>/bin/sh</filename> or <filename>./builder.sh</filename>.
A path must contain at least one slash to be recognised as such; for