[Nix-dev] Re: NixOS manual: "declared by" & "defined by"

[Nicolas Pierron]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 14:01, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
> Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
> writes:
>>>   * I’d prefer “used by” instead of “defined by”, and maybe even
>>>     “defined by” instead of “declared by”.
>>
>> The "declare/define" terminology follows the C/C++ convention.
>
> I understand, but I don’t find it natural in this context.  In
> particular, a single option can be used by several modules, and saying
> that it’s “defined by” each of these modules makes it sound like there
> are several possibly conflicting “definitions”.

Which is the case, and that's the purpose of the merge function which
is declare for merging definitions to provide a consistent result for
uses.

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Nicolas Pierron
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