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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md index 19d2f7c0d..6b1047c71 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ## Primitives -### Strings +### String *Strings* can be written in three ways. @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ is*, without quotes. For instance, the string `"http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2"` can also be written as `http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2`. -### Numbers +### Number Numbers, which can be *integers* (like `123`) or *floating point* (like `123.43` or `.27e13`). @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Numbers are type-compatible: pure integer operations will always return integers, whereas any operation involving at least one floating point number will have a floating point number as a result. -### Paths +### Path *Paths*, e.g., `/bin/sh` or `./builder.sh`. A path must contain at least one slash to be recognised as such. For instance, `builder.sh` @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ 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 +### Boolean *Booleans* with values `true` and `false`. @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ operation. `./a.${foo}/b.${bar}` is a path. The null value, denoted as `null`. -## Lists +## List Lists are formed by enclosing a whitespace-separated list of values between square brackets. For example, @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ function and the fifth being a set. Note that lists are only lazy in values, and they are strict in length. -## Attribute Sets +## Attribute Set Attribute sets are collections of name-value-pairs (called *attributes*) enclosed in curly brackets (`{ }`). |