* Added an experimental feature suggested by Andres: ellipses ("...")

  in attribute set pattern matches.  This allows defining a function
  that takes *at least* the listed attributes, while ignoring
  additional attributes.  For instance,

    {stdenv, fetchurl, fuse, ...}:
    
    stdenv.mkDerivation {
      ...
    };
    
  defines a function that requires an attribute set that contains the 
  specified attributes but ignores others.  The main advantage is that
  we can then write in all-packages.nix

    aefs = import ../bla/aefs pkgs;

  instead of

    aefs = import ../bla/aefs {
      inherit stdenv fetchurl fuse;
    };

  This saves a lot of typing (not to mention not having to update
  all-packages.nix with purely mechanical changes).  It saves as much
  typing as the "args: with args;" style, but has the advantage that
  the function arguments are properly declared (not implicit in what
  the body of the "with" uses).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-xml.nix b/tests/lang/eval-okay-xml.nix
index 44afbff1ed13..b9389bfae759 100644
--- a/tests/lang/eval-okay-xml.nix
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-xml.nix
@@ -14,4 +14,6 @@ rec {
 
   at = args@{x, y, z}: x;
 
+  ellipsis = {x, y, z, ...}: x;
+
 }