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@@ -17,6 +17,33 @@ features:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>Syntactic sugar for writing nested attribute sets. Instead of
+
+<programlisting>
+{
+ foo = {
+ bar = 123;
+ xyzzy = true;
+ };
+ a = { b = { c = "d"; }; };
+}
+</programlisting>
+
+ you can write
+
+<programlisting>
+{
+ foo.bar = 123;
+ foo.xyzzy = true;
+ a.b.c = "d";
+}
+</programlisting>
+
+ This is useful, for instance, in NixOS configuration files.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Support for Nix channels generated by Hydra, the Nix-based
continuous build system. (Hydra generates NAR archives on the
fly, so the size and hash of these archives isn’t known in