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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2017-04-18T14·54+0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-04-18T14·54+0200 |
| commit | 62a07992bd480d1b4490d40404147bf24b9ea952 (patch) | |
| tree | 3823aedd995c0f611cfedc77985cbe0c0898d13b | |
| parent | 67fe3e07b2069c27484d6817d05d9190e70c518c (diff) | |
| parent | 9622d00afa6e94ef3ca026f9e15a7d122566e7d0 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #1337 from lheckemann/doc-tryEval
Manual: document tryEval
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml index e9baff65961a..8a18b71008cb 100644 --- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml +++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml @@ -1163,6 +1163,19 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec { </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.tryEval</function> + <replaceable>e</replaceable></term> + + <listitem><para>Try to evaluate <replaceable>e</replaceable>. + Return a set containing the attributes <literal>success</literal> + (<literal>true</literal> if <replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluated + successfully, <literal>false</literal> if an error was thrown) and + <literal>value</literal>, equalling <replaceable>e</replaceable> + if successful and <literal>false</literal> otherwise. + </para></listitem> + + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.typeOf</function> <replaceable>e</replaceable></term> |