Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Fri May 14 22:22:32 +0000 2010:
> Hi!
>
> AFAICS, nix supports any string as a key in attr set, but { name = value; }
> syntax only supports "simple" strings.
>
> What do you think about the following:
>
> x = {
> 'very strange.name' = "value";
> '0.2' = "another value";
> }
In fact I tried implementing it. I failed I got a segfault I couldn't
resolve.
The workaround is using builtins.listToAttrs which is cumbersome but
works. If you grep nixpkgs for this word you'llt find examples.
This is still on my long TODO list..
Marc Weber
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