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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2009-05-11T15·50+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2009-05-11T15·50+0000
commitc34e6d71bc62bb83f3bfed69f781ded4d5a46d3a (patch)
tree48d5876d3cf5ae6c07dc036774a051c4409865f5 /src/nix-setuid-helper/nix-setuid-helper.cc
parent9536ba19d437a82d4b521709b49ef6977321b692 (diff)
* Disallow equality tests between attribute sets. This was always
  broken, but now the evaluator checks for it to prevent Nix
  expressions from relying on undefined behaviour.  Equality tests are
  implemented using a shallow pointer equality test between ATerms.
  However, because attribute sets are lazy and contain position
  information, this can give false positives.  For instance,
  previously

    let y = {x = 1;}; in y == y

  evaluated to true, while the equivalent expression

    {x = 1;} == {x = 1;}

  evaluated to false.  So disallow these tests for now.  (Eventually
  we may want to implement deep equality tests for attribute sets,
  like lib.eqStrict.)
  
* Idem: disallow comparisons between functions.

* Implemented deep comparisons of lists.  This had the same problem as
  attribute sets - the elements in the list weren't evaluated.  For
  instance,

    ["xy"] == [("x" + "y")]

  evaluated to false.  Now it works properly.

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