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Eelco Dolstra 2009-05-26 16:32:02 +00:00
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@ -16,6 +16,33 @@ features:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Syntactic sugar for writing nested attribute sets. Instead of
<programlisting>
{
foo = {
bar = 123;
xyzzy = true;
};
a = { b = { c = "d"; }; };
}
</programlisting>
you can write
<programlisting>
{
foo.bar = 123;
foo.xyzzy = true;
a.b.c = "d";
}
</programlisting>
This is useful, for instance, in NixOS configuration files.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for Nix channels generated by Hydra, the Nix-based
continuous build system. (Hydra generates NAR archives on the