| 20 Feb 2026 |
 alexfmpe | nix-repl> ''abc'$def''
"abc'$def"
| 00:01:00 |
| alexfmpe | I need to hit someone | 00:01:16 |
| alexfmpe | so IIUC, ''$ is a fancy special construct to quote $ ? | 00:02:00 |
 woobilicious | nix-repl> ''abc''${test}''
"abc\${test}"
| 00:02:21 |
| alexfmpe | looks like it | 00:02:33 |
| alexfmpe | disturbing but whatever | 00:02:42 |
| alexfmpe | I really don't see how ''$ improves on \$ | 00:03:40 |
| woobilicious | nix-repl> ''''$''
"$"
nix-repl> ''abc''$def''
"abc$def"
| 00:05:04 |
| alexfmpe | what the hell | 00:05:13 |
| woobilicious | Mine gives a different result lol | 00:05:17 |
| alexfmpe | nix-repl> "abc\${def}"
"abc\${def}"
nix-repl> ''abc\${def}''
error: undefined variable 'def'
at «string»:1:9:
1| ''abc\${def}''
| ^
| 00:05:20 |
| alexfmpe | nah, I used both 1 and 2 single quotes above | 00:06:00 |
| alexfmpe | yours is the same as my 2 ', just not the 1 ' | 00:06:27 |
| alexfmpe | * nix-repl> "abc\${def}"
"abc\${def}"
nix-repl> ''abc\${def}''
error: undefined variable 'def'
at «string»:1:9:
1| ''abc\${def}''
| ^
| 00:06:48 |
| woobilicious | I guess maybe there's instances where you want to pass escapes from variables | 00:07:03 |
| woobilicious | oh yeah somehow I thought you had two singles on that line | 00:07:36 |
| alexfmpe | nix-repl> "abc''\def"
"abc''def"
| 00:07:41 |
| alexfmpe | ???? | 00:07:44 |
| woobilicious | Tho \\ should just work lol | 00:07:54 |
| alexfmpe | oh nevermind I don't have $ there | 00:08:31 |
| alexfmpe | still, don't much care for this escape-differently-in-multiline-strings business | 00:09:07 |
| alexfmpe | https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.24/language/syntax | 00:10:00 |
| alexfmpe | * still, don't much care for this escape-differently-in-indented-strings business | 00:10:11 |
| alexfmpe | ''\ escapes any other character. | 00:10:21 |
| woobilicious | yeah I also don't know how it's sane to parse... I guess '' blah '' ${def} is invalid syntax, but still | 00:10:26 |
| alexfmpe | needs to know what goes after the '' to determine if it's the $ or we're ending the literal | 00:11:45 |
| woobilicious | Mentally parsing it definitely sucks, that has got to be the worst design idea beating space seperated lists by a tone. | 00:13:42 |
| woobilicious | I guess it makes it easier to read than having like \\\\\\ -> ''\''\''\ | 00:21:04 |
| woobilicious | Who should I at in the PR? | 01:04:28 |
| woobilicious | nevermind I think I found the list. | 01:07:57 |
