diff --git a/src/libexpr/value/print.cc b/src/libexpr/value/print.cc
index cf97def46..c67ff9f87 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/value/print.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/value/print.cc
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 namespace nix {
 
 std::ostream &
-printLiteral(std::ostream & str, const std::string_view string) {
+printLiteral(std::ostream & str, const std::string_view string) 
+{
     str << "\"";
     for (auto i = string.begin(); i != string.end(); ++i) {
         if (*i == '\"' || *i == '\\') str << "\\" << *i;
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@ printLiteral(std::ostream & str, const std::string_view string) {
 }
 
 std::ostream &
-printLiteral(std::ostream & str, bool boolean) {
+printLiteral(std::ostream & str, bool boolean) 
+{
     str << (boolean ? "true" : "false");
     return str;
 }
diff --git a/src/libstore/derivations.cc b/src/libstore/derivations.cc
index 9948862e5..7eb5cd275 100644
--- a/src/libstore/derivations.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/derivations.cc
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ Derivation parseDerivation(const Store & store, std::string && s, std::string_vi
 
 
 /**
- * Print a derivation string literal to an std::string.
+ * Print a derivation string literal to an `std::string`.
  *
  * This syntax does not generalize to the expression language, which needs to
  * escape `$`.