Hi,
Marc Weber wrote:
example:
let pkgs = {
postfix = "postfix";
}; in
rec {
config = {
extraPackages = (with pkgs; [ postfix ]);
};
postfix = "dummy";
}.config
results in
|| Attrs([Bind("extraPackages",List([Str("dummy",[])]),NoPos)])
I would have expected postfix beeing taken from pkgs here!
the way it is just feels wrong to me.
Should we change this?
Whether this is wrong is debatable: by taking postfix from the rec at least the
binding is clear from the lexical scope (you can see from the lexical scoping
that postfix will be taken from the surrounding rec, instead of dependening on
the runtime contents of the "with").
The implementation reason is that the rec substitutes its attributes in the
bodies of each attribute. Of course substitution of a variable doesn't recurse
into a term that binds that variables (e.g. a function "postfix: ..."), but with
"with" it has no way of knowing what variables are bound, since it would have to
evaluate "pkgs" for that.
--
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
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