[Nix-dev] Not understanding evaluation of with inside let

[Vladimír Čunát]

Hi.

On 05/15/2016 10:25 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> So what's going on here?

It's the plain fact that `with` is "low-priority" in nix. Any identifier
introduced by `with` is only used if it isn't found elsewhere.

I agree it can seem confusing, at least at first. I'm not sure if it's
documented somewhere, but we've had quite a few discussions on that
topic already.

--Vladimir


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