[Nix-dev] Newlines in nix strings - good look

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Lluís Batlle i Rossell's message of Sun May 09 19:36:12 +0200 2010:
> Hello,
> 
> often I hit the problem of wanting a string in a newline in some case, else
> no string. Something like:
> ''
>   blabla
> 
>   ${if x then "xxx" else "yyy"}
> 
>   ${if z then "zzz" else "yyy"}
> 
>   blublu
> ''
> 
> I don't like the result having two void lines. A nice example of what I don't
> want you can find at the upstart jobs. :)
> Have you thought of a comfortable nix source that looks simple both in source
> and result?
> 
> Thank you,
> Lluís.

primop.removeDuplicateLinse ''
  [..]
''

?

You could also use a git command. I forgot its name. But there is one
which does exactly that: removing duplicate lines.

In the end I personally don't care. Do you look that often at those
files?

Marc Weber