| 1 May 2024 |
 infinisil | djacu Oh here's something else: inherit doesn't alway desugar to x = x | 07:42:11 |
| infinisil | E.g. `x: rec { inherit x; }` | 07:43:33 |
 raboof | cool! the 'bind set arguments' (top-right) can't decide between 'set' or 'args' it seems? | 07:51:27 |
| raboof | maybe use 'attribute set' rather than just 'set' in that description? ('set' may invoke different expectations to people not familiar with nix) | 07:52:43 |
| raboof | * cool! the 'bind set arguments' (bottom-right) can't decide between 'set' or 'args' it seems? | 07:53:12 |
| infinisil | djacu Also "update" attribute sets instead of "merge". Merge sounds recursive | 08:03:44 |
| infinisil | djacu Actually maybe it's best to just post it in a Nix issue so that the Nix team can briefly bikeshed and check it? :P | 08:05:04 |
| infinisil | It looks really cool though, let's get that posted soon! | 08:05:26 |
 tomberek | Perhaps a mention that builtins exist? A full pverview is out of scope, but it might be good to point out. | 08:47:55 |
| tomberek | * Perhaps a mention that builtins exist? A full overview is out of scope, but it might be good to point out. | 08:48:10 |
| raboof | good point, maybe point to 'further references' like https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/builtins.html and https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#id-1.4 ? Getting hard to fit in, though, I can imagine ;) | 09:07:40 |
|  NixOS Moderation Botchanged room power levels. | 15:06:50 |
 djacu | In reply to @raboof:matrix.org
maybe use 'attribute set' rather than just 'set' in that description? ('set' may invoke different expectations to people not familiar with nix) Yeah ideally I would use 'attribute set' here but it didn't fit on a single line. Space is a premium so I shortened it to set. Thinking about just removing the word 'set` here. Since it is a continuation from the previous three examples, it should be clear that it is still an attrset | 15:11:05 |
| djacu | In reply to @raboof:matrix.org
cool! the 'bind set arguments' (bottom-right) can't decide between 'set' or 'args' it seems? The inspiration was the nixcademy cheat sheet.
https://nixcademy.com/cheatsheet.html
I changed the bind arguments variable to args because it's contextually different. Also a lot of examples I've seen usually call that variable args or inputs in the case of flakes.
| 15:13:17 |
| djacu | Wow thanks for all the feedback everyone. For reference, we are trying to emulate something similar to the nixcademy cheat sheet (https://nixcademy.com/cheatsheet.html). This one being just for the nix language.
The design goals I am working with are
- printable (so we can hand them out at cons)
- start with just the nix language (no nix commands for now)
- ideally 1 page
- cover enough basics that users can get going (i.e. it's not comprehensive)
We could go to 2 pages but ideally it would be 1 for the nix language and 1 for nix commands.
Built-ins would be a great addition. Trying to figure out how to make it all fit.
Creating this in latex. The default font size, which you all see, is 10pt. I could try 9pt... would need to do some test prints to see if it would look okay.
| 15:20:26 |
| djacu | Doesn't it still hold true in this case?
nix-repl> (x: rec {inherit x;}) 10
{ x = 10; }
nix-repl> :p (x: rec {inherit x;}) { y = { z = 20; }; }
{ x = { y = { z = 20; }; }; }
| 15:28:54 |
| raboof | Makes sense, then it should be 'args.x' and 'args.y' right? | 15:29:44 |
| djacu | In reply to @raboof:matrix.org
good point, maybe point to 'further references' like https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/builtins.html and https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#id-1.4 ? Getting hard to fit in, though, I can imagine ;) We really need to get our own URL shortener | 15:31:04 |
| djacu | ah yes i see what you mean. i caught that right after i posted it last night. forgot to mention it. thanks for calling it out! | 16:20:27 |
