[Nix-dev] [PATCH] t/allow-arbitrary-strinsg-in-names

[Michael Raskin]

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On 07/13/2010 02:58 AM, Marc Weber wrote:
> allow strings as names in attribute sets:
> 
> Example:
> 
> let sourcesByVersion = {
>   "git-1.8" : fetchurl ..
>   "git-2.0" : fetchurl ..
> }
> 
> This isn't something new. This undocumented feature was available for a long
> time using listToAttrs which accepted arbitrary strings as name.

Your example is misleading. Having read the patch, I think that it is
useful for this use case; and I wanted to object to the ":" syntax, but
then I saw that a matching example would be

{
  "git-1.8" = fetchurl {..};
}
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