Allow dashes in identifiers

In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name.  However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common.  The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying.  So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:

  dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };

and

  buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];

Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2012-09-27 15:43:08 -04:00
parent f46612be96
commit 95c74eae26
4 changed files with 9 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The hook `nix-mode-hook' is run when Nix mode is started.
("\\<isNull\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
("[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\\+-\\.]*:[a-zA-Z0-9%/\\?:@&=\\+\\$,_\\.!~\\*'-]+"
. font-lock-constant-face)
("\\<\\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_'\.]*\\)[ \t]*="
("\\<\\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_'\-\.]*\\)[ \t]*="
(1 font-lock-variable-name-face nil nil))
("<[a-zA-Z0-9._\\+-]+\\(/[a-zA-Z0-9._\\+-]+\\)*>"
. font-lock-constant-face)