[Nix-dev] Re: NixOS: New scheme

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Tue Dec 23 00:42:31 CET 2008


> I was also confused by the use of the word "set" for "attribute set",
> the latter being closer to what other languages refer to as a `record'
> or `structure' than to a set in the mathematical sense.
dict (Javascript, Vimscript), record, struct, Map, ... yeah. nix is
using yet another term for this.. :-(

Marc



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