Hi,
On 27/01/15 16:58, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Nix could be extended to accept `rec { "foo.bar" = "test"; bar =
> ${"foo.bar"};}'?
Well, it was probably a mistake to allow string syntax for variable names in the
first place. It might be better to allow '.' to be escaped in variables names:
rec {
foo\.bar = "test";
bar = foo\.bar;
}
> Is this an important use case?
No, we probably don't want to promote using dots in variable names at all :-)
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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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