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2005-07-25 * Added a list concatenation operator:Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
[1 2 3] ++ [4 5 6] => [1 2 3 4 5 6]
2004-10-27 * Bug fix in parsing of /* ... */ comments; due to longest matchEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
regexp there could be only one such comment per file.
2004-10-25 * New language feature: with expressions.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in the attribute set E1 substituted. E.g., with {x = 123;}; x evaluates to 123. That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2. This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots definitions. E.g., instead of let { inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f; body = ... a ... f ...; } we can now say with import ./foo.nix; ... a ... f ... I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.
2004-03-28 * Added plain lambdas, e.g., `let { id = x: x; const = x: y: x; }'.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
`bla:' is now no longer parsed as a URL. * Re-enabled support for the `args' attribute in derivations to specify command line arguments to the builder, e.g., ... builder = /usr/bin/python; args = ["-c" ./builder.py]; ...
2004-02-04 * An attribute set update operator (//). E.g.,Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
{x=1; y=2; z=3;} // {y=4;} => {x=1; y=4; z=3;}
2004-02-02 * Added syntactic sugar to the construction of attribute sets toEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
`inherit' variables from the surrounding lexical scope. E.g., {stdenv, libfoo}: derivation { builder = ./bla; inherit stdenv libfoo; xyzzy = 1; } is equivalent to {stdenv, libfoo}: derivation { builder = ./bla; stdenv = stdenv; libfoo = libfoo; xyzzy = 1; } Note that for mutually recursive attribute set definitions (`rec {...}'), this also works, that is, `rec {inherit x;}' is equivalent to `let {fresh = x; body = rec {x = fresh;};}', *not* `rec {x = x}'.
2004-01-30 * Parser numbers again.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+4
* Include missing files in distributions.
2004-01-30 * Replaced the SDF parser by a substantially faster Bison/FlexEelco Dolstra1-0/+78
parser (roughly 80x faster). The absolutely latest version of Bison (1.875c) is required for reentrant GLR support, as well as a recent version of Flex (say, 2.5.31). Note that most Unix distributions ship with the prehistoric Flex 2.5.4, which doesn't support reentrancy.