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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2016-02-12T11·49+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2016-02-12T11·49+0100
commitb3e8d72770b4100843c60b35633e529e6e69d543 (patch)
treef50070c3c31dd862b837bb514a9e0b10e68216a1 /doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
parentae4a3cfa030438ca05ad3bf61fa301dee6c1dbb5 (diff)
parent5cdcaf5e8edd6679f667502eec421ac4e725d4ef (diff)
Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats
Implement floats
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
index 40d90f78d521..eae5f5a029bf 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ available as <function>builtins.derivation</function>.</para>
   <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.add</function>
   <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>Return the sum of the integers
+    <listitem><para>Return the sum of the numbers
     <replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
     <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
 
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ if builtins ? getEnv then builtins.getEnv "PATH" else ""</programlisting>
   <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.div</function>
   <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>Return the quotient of the integers
+    <listitem><para>Return the quotient of the numbers
     <replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
     <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
 
@@ -620,12 +620,12 @@ x: x + 456</programlisting>
   <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.lessThan</function>
   <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if the integer
-    <replaceable>e1</replaceable> is less than the integer
+    <listitem><para>Return <literal>true</literal> if the number
+    <replaceable>e1</replaceable> is less than the number
     <replaceable>e2</replaceable>, and <literal>false</literal>
     otherwise.  Evaluation aborts if either
     <replaceable>e1</replaceable> or <replaceable>e2</replaceable>
-    does not evaluate to an integer.</para></listitem>
+    does not evaluate to a number.</para></listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>
 
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ map (x: "foo" + x) [ "bar" "bla" "abc" ]</programlisting>
   <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.mul</function>
   <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>Return the product of the integers
+    <listitem><para>Return the product of the numbers
     <replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
     <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
 
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ builtins.sort builtins.lessThan [ 483 249 526 147 42 77 ]
   <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.sub</function>
   <replaceable>e1</replaceable> <replaceable>e2</replaceable></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>Return the difference between the integers
+    <listitem><para>Return the difference between the numbers
     <replaceable>e1</replaceable> and
     <replaceable>e2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
 
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ in foo</programlisting>
   <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.toJSON</function> <replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
 
     <listitem><para>Return a string containing a JSON representation
-    of <replaceable>e</replaceable>.  Strings, integers, booleans,
+    of <replaceable>e</replaceable>.  Strings, integers, floats, booleans,
     nulls and lists are mapped to their JSON equivalents.  Sets
     (except derivations) are represented as objects.  Derivations are
     translated to a JSON string containing the derivation’s output