[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r29021 - nixos/trunk/modules/misc

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Mon Sep 5 11:43:11 CEST 2011


Hi,

On 09/05/2011 11:19 AM, Nicolas Pierron wrote:

> +  optCall = f: x:
> +    if builtins.isFunction f
> +    then f x
> +    else f;

Attributes that can be both functions or not are a bad habit that we 
shouldn't propagate further :-)  It also makes behaviour of 
nixpkgs.config inconsistent with the semantics of the 
~/.nixpkgs/config.nix.  Is there a good reason for this?

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