[Nix-dev] Small Question on Strings, Attributes & Functions

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 08/24/2016 01:04 PM, Matan Shenhav wrote:
> Is there a resource covering the rules for variables, values and
> functions? I am still somewhat confused because if I define func = x:
> x=="x" I do not need to antiquote with ${}.

That function compares its (first) parameter with a single-character
string. With antiquotation it would do something else.

--Vladimir


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