Hello Linus, Thank you for you prompt reply!
Thus quoth Linus Heckemann at 12:24 on Sun, May 28 2017:
> On 28/05/17 13:18, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
>>
>> concatAttrs = attrList: pkgs.lib.fold (x: y: x // y) {} attrList;
>>
>> Do you see any isssues with such an implementation?
>>
>
> Looks like a sensible way to do it to me, though I'd be surprised if it
> doesn't already exist in nixpkgs.
Yeah, that's what I thought as well.
> Do keep in mind that // is not commutative — the order matters when the
> two sets contain the same key — but other than that I don't see any
> issues.
Indeed, right, the function I wrote should probably be called iterUnion,
to avoid insinuating any special treatment of repeated keys.
My use case is quite specific. I do this, approximately:
let func name = { "${name}" = something name; };
in concatAttrs (map func [ "name1" "name2" ])
I don't expect to have repeated names, so key repetitions isn't
something likely to happen.
> You might also want to look at the merging logic used for nixos
> modules (lib/modules.nix), although that's significantly more complex.
Oh, thank you for the reference (I actually took a look!), but in my
case I only merge three-element attribute sets. My concatAttrs is
essentially me playing around with Nix more than anything else :-)
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Sergiu
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