Hey,
I was going through the awesome and illuminating Tour of Nix when I bumped into
a conundrum in doing exercise 33.
The 'pick' function is meant to return - in a list - the value of attribute
'at' in attribute set 'attset':
pick = at: attset: if (attset ? at) then [ attset.at ] else []
Testing this in the nix-repl yields:> testset = {a=1;}
> pick "a" testset
> [ ]
Now having checked the solution of the exercise, I found that the following
did work:
pick2 = at: attset: if (attset ? ${at}) then [ attset.${at} ] else []
> pick2 "a" testset
> [ 1 ]
Additionally manual substitution worked:
> if testset ? "a" then [ testset."a" ] else []
> [ 1 ]
Could someone kindly explain to me why 'pick2' and manual substitution work
but 'pick' doesn't?
Cheers,
Matan
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Matan Bendix Shenhav
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Fluxcraft
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