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Nix expressions for VSCode and OpenVSX extensions [maintainers: @deemp, @AmeerTaweel]
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What is `__filter` in flake.nix? #50

Open Septias opened 6 months ago

Septias commented 6 months ago

The top-level flake.nix uses a lot of dunder methods like __filter which look like the library functions, but aren't. I also don't find any definition for them in the file so I wonder how the whole flake even works. Can someone explain this shortly?

deemp commented 4 months ago

@Septias, I believe you've discovered them in nix repl. Try running repl inside this repository without :lf. You'll see these functions. They're builtins. They aren't a part of the flake.