* Added a builtin function `isList' to test whether a value is a list.

  With this primitive, a list-flattening function can be implemented
  (NIX-55, example is in tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.nix).

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.exp b/tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.exp
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index 000000000000..e76d25de12b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.exp
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+Str("1234567")
diff --git a/tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.nix b/tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2019263b8297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.nix
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+let {
+
+  fold = op: nul: list:
+    if list == []
+    then nul
+    else op (builtins.head list) (fold op nul (builtins.tail list));
+
+  concat =
+    fold (x: y: x + y) "";
+    
+  flatten = x:
+    if builtins.isList x
+    then fold (x: y: (flatten x) ++ y) [] x
+    else [x];
+
+  l = ["1" "2" ["3" ["4"] ["5" "6"]] "7"];
+
+  body = concat (flatten l);
+}