* Allow a default value in attribute selection by writing

    x.y.z or default

  (as originally proposed in
  https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html).

  For instance, an expression like

    stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args

  can now be written as

    args.features.ckSched or false

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs5.exp b/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs5.exp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ce0430d78081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs5.exp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[ 123 "foo" 456 456 "foo" "xyzzy" "xyzzy" true ]
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs5.nix b/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs5.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e77ee7a1c22b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-attrs5.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+with import ./lib.nix;
+
+let
+
+  as = { x.y.z = 123; a.b.c = 456; };
+
+  bs = { foo.bar = "foo"; };
+
+  or = x: y: x || y;
+  
+in
+  [ as.x.y.z
+    as.foo or "foo"
+    as.x.y.bla or as.a.b.c
+    as.a.b.c or as.x.y.z
+    as.x.y.bla or bs.foo.bar or "xyzzy"
+    as.x.y.bla or bs.bar.foo or "xyzzy"
+    123.bla or null.foo or "xyzzy"
+    # Backwards compatibility test.
+    (fold or [] [true false false])
+  ]