* Some syntactic sugar for attribute sets: allow {x.y.z = ...;} as a

  shorthand for {x = {y = {z = ...;};};}.  This is especially useful
  for NixOS configuration files, e.g.

    {
      services = {
        sshd = {
          enable = true;
          port = 2022;
        };
      };
    }

  can now be written as

    {
      services.sshd.enable = true;
      services.sshd.port = 2022;
    }

  However, it is currently not permitted to write
  
    {
      services.sshd = {enable = true;};
      services.sshd.port = 2022;
    }

  as this is considered a duplicate definition of `services.sshd'.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs3.nix b/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs3.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f29de11fe660
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs3.nix
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+let
+
+  config = 
+    {
+      services.sshd.enable = true;
+      services.sshd.port = 22;
+      services.httpd.port = 80;
+      hostName = "itchy";
+      a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.o.p.q.r.s.t.u.v.w.x.y.z = "x";
+      foo = {
+        a = "a";
+        b.c = "c";
+      };
+    };
+
+in
+  if config.services.sshd.enable
+  then "foo ${toString config.services.sshd.port} ${toString config.services.httpd.port} ${config.hostName}"
+       + "${config.a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.o.p.q.r.s.t.u.v.w.x.y.z}"
+       + "${config.foo.a}"
+       + "${config.foo.b.c}"
+  else "bar"