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| author | Domen Kožar <domen@enlambda.com> | 2017-10-30T11·21+0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-10-30T11·21+0100 |
| commit | 5cb78053f01ec82bcb8034a0afefa44fc82b5e72 (patch) | |
| tree | d0b2c0028d7a5c73ddc428e82820eace6d410caa /doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml | |
| parent | e38382895deef4c136b7425f480884d122f3c5ae (diff) | |
| parent | 842ce8bafd89a896680d8614ffb2b08b6b38452a (diff) | |
Merge pull request #1633 from orivej/doc
Update the language documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml index fe69dba837a1..2f0027d479cd 100644 --- a/doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml +++ b/doc/manual/expressions/language-constructs.xml @@ -333,7 +333,20 @@ with (import ./definitions.nix); ...</programlisting> makes all attributes defined in the file <filename>definitions.nix</filename> available as if they were defined -locally in a <literal>rec</literal>-expression.</para> +locally in a <literal>let</literal>-expression.</para> + +<para>The bindings introduced by <literal>with</literal> do not shadow bindings +introduced by other means, e.g. + +<programlisting> +let a = 3; in with { a = 1; }; let a = 4; in with { a = 2; }; ...</programlisting> + +establishes the same scope as + +<programlisting> +let a = 1; in let a = 2; in let a = 3; in let a = 4; in ...</programlisting> + +</para> </simplesect> |