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| author | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2014-03-10T11·09-0400 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-03-11T12·15+0100 |
| commit | 2f2a20ed18535ba819225fabe9a4cf2f37d2edb1 (patch) | |
| tree | d5378f4677c7828ed48fa7c843701c4015637fce /doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml | |
| parent | 049a379ec6ca755bcc077fd0e8da186ff76b8679 (diff) | |
Document null dynamic attrs
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diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml index 71cd84b072b4..873dc21a5292 100644 --- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml +++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml @@ -871,6 +871,17 @@ This will evaluate to <literal>123</literal> if coerced to a string and <literal>456</literal> otherwise (again assuming <literal>bar</literal> is antiquotable).</para> +<para>In the special case where an attribute name inside of a set declaration +evaluates to <literal>"${null}"</literal> (which is normally an error, as +<literal>null</literal> is not antiquotable), that attribute is simply not +added to the set: + +<programlisting> +{ ${if foo then "bar" else null} = true; }</programlisting> + +This will evaluate to <literal>{}</literal> if <literal>foo</literal> +evaluates to <literal>false</literal>.</para> + </simplesect> |