From b2beb97f2ae5fbade5e5ac0763ffbefdc4057ee8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Taeer Bar-Yam Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:17:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add documentation for path antiquotations --- doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md index ce31029cc..28fa23b58 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md @@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ Nix has the following basic data types: environment variable `NIX_PATH` will be searched for the given file or directory name. + Antiquotation is supported in any paths except those in angle brackets. + `./${foo}-${bar}.nix` is a more convenient way of writing + `./. + "/" + foo + "-" + bar + ".nix"` or `./. + "/${foo}-${bar}.nix"`. At + least one slash must appear *before* any antiquotations for this to be + recognized as a path. `a.${foo}/b.${bar}` is a syntactically valid division + operation. `./a.${foo}/b.${bar}` is a path. + - *Booleans* with values `true` and `false`. - The null value, denoted as `null`.