Open rhendric opened 2 days ago
Yes, absolutely. Small PRs appreciated, I'll absolutely prioritise merging anything following the plan in this issue.
Derivations’ would be moved under 5.1.
A lot of the derivations material should first be covered in the store section. At that point, I think we may not even need a special page for builtins.derivation
and builtins.deriationStrict
, because we'll just be discussion how the argument for those functions maps on to derivation concepts that are discussed elsewhere.
Ah, that makes sense!
I'll probably start by moving that section to Initial Environment along with the other builtins, then.
Problem
The Nix language reference (section 5 in the manual) is somewhat haphazardly organized and missing some details about the language. Could go into more detail if required but possibly not necessary; I think you may already agree.
Proposal
I'd like to restructure section 5 in the following way:
This is possibly a duplicate of #7259? It seems we have a language reference; I just want to crisp it up.
@fricklerhandwerk thoughts?
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