[Nix-dev] Can recursive attribute sets refer to quoted attributes?

[Wout Mertens]

Nix could be extended to accept `rec { "foo.bar" = "test"; bar =
${"foo.bar"};}'?

Is this an important use case?
On Mon Jan 26 2015 at 12:58:25 PM Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 26/01/15 10:55, Peter Simons wrote:
>
> > consider the following recursive attribute set:
> >
> >     rec
> >     {
> >       "foo.bar" = "test";
> >     }
> >
> > Is there any way to refer to "foo.bar" within that set?
>
> No, except by giving the entire set a name, e.g.
>
>   let attrs = rec { "foo.bar" = ...; x = attrs."foo.bar"; }; in attrs
>
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