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Nix
170 lines
5.5 KiB
Nix
rec {
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/* The identity function
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For when you need a function that does “nothing”.
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Type: id :: a -> a
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*/
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id = x: x;
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/* The constant function
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Ignores the second argument.
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Or: Construct a function that always returns a static value.
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Type: const :: a -> b -> a
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Example:
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let f = const 5; in f 10
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=> 5
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*/
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const = x: y: x;
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## Named versions corresponding to some builtin operators.
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/* Concat two strings */
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concat = x: y: x ++ y;
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/* boolean “or” */
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or = x: y: x || y;
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/* boolean “and” */
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and = x: y: x && y;
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/* Convert a boolean to a string.
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Note that toString on a bool returns "1" and "".
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*/
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boolToString = b: if b then "true" else "false";
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/* Merge two attribute sets shallowly, right side trumps left
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Example:
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mergeAttrs { a = 1; b = 2; } { b = 3; c = 4; }
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=> { a = 1; b = 3; c = 4; }
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*/
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mergeAttrs = x: y: x // y;
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# Compute the fixed point of the given function `f`, which is usually an
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# attribute set that expects its final, non-recursive representation as an
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# argument:
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#
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# f = self: { foo = "foo"; bar = "bar"; foobar = self.foo + self.bar; }
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#
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# Nix evaluates this recursion until all references to `self` have been
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# resolved. At that point, the final result is returned and `f x = x` holds:
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#
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# nix-repl> fix f
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# { bar = "bar"; foo = "foo"; foobar = "foobar"; }
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#
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# Type: fix :: (a -> a) -> a
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#
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# See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator for further
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# details.
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fix = f: let x = f x; in x;
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# A variant of `fix` that records the original recursive attribute set in the
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# result. This is useful in combination with the `extends` function to
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# implement deep overriding. See pkgs/development/haskell-modules/default.nix
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# for a concrete example.
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fix' = f: let x = f x // { __unfix__ = f; }; in x;
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# Modify the contents of an explicitly recursive attribute set in a way that
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# honors `self`-references. This is accomplished with a function
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#
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# g = self: super: { foo = super.foo + " + "; }
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#
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# that has access to the unmodified input (`super`) as well as the final
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# non-recursive representation of the attribute set (`self`). `extends`
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# differs from the native `//` operator insofar as that it's applied *before*
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# references to `self` are resolved:
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#
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# nix-repl> fix (extends g f)
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# { bar = "bar"; foo = "foo + "; foobar = "foo + bar"; }
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#
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# The name of the function is inspired by object-oriented inheritance, i.e.
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# think of it as an infix operator `g extends f` that mimics the syntax from
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# Java. It may seem counter-intuitive to have the "base class" as the second
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# argument, but it's nice this way if several uses of `extends` are cascaded.
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extends = f: rattrs: self: let super = rattrs self; in super // f self super;
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# Compose two extending functions of the type expected by 'extends'
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# into one where changes made in the first are available in the
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# 'super' of the second
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composeExtensions =
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f: g: self: super:
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let fApplied = f self super;
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super' = super // fApplied;
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in fApplied // g self super';
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# Create an overridable, recursive attribute set. For example:
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#
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# nix-repl> obj = makeExtensible (self: { })
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#
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# nix-repl> obj
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# { __unfix__ = «lambda»; extend = «lambda»; }
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#
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# nix-repl> obj = obj.extend (self: super: { foo = "foo"; })
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#
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# nix-repl> obj
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# { __unfix__ = «lambda»; extend = «lambda»; foo = "foo"; }
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#
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# nix-repl> obj = obj.extend (self: super: { foo = super.foo + " + "; bar = "bar"; foobar = self.foo + self.bar; })
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#
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# nix-repl> obj
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# { __unfix__ = «lambda»; bar = "bar"; extend = «lambda»; foo = "foo + "; foobar = "foo + bar"; }
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makeExtensible = makeExtensibleWithCustomName "extend";
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# Same as `makeExtensible` but the name of the extending attribute is
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# customized.
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makeExtensibleWithCustomName = extenderName: rattrs:
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fix' rattrs // {
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${extenderName} = f: makeExtensibleWithCustomName extenderName (extends f rattrs);
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};
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# Flip the order of the arguments of a binary function.
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flip = f: a: b: f b a;
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# Apply function if argument is non-null
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mapNullable = f: a: if isNull a then a else f a;
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# Pull in some builtins not included elsewhere.
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inherit (builtins)
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pathExists readFile isBool isFunction
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isInt add sub lessThan
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seq deepSeq genericClosure;
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inherit (import ./strings.nix) fileContents;
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# Return the Nixpkgs version number.
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nixpkgsVersion =
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let suffixFile = ../.version-suffix; in
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fileContents ../.version
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+ (if pathExists suffixFile then fileContents suffixFile else "pre-git");
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# Whether we're being called by nix-shell.
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inNixShell = builtins.getEnv "IN_NIX_SHELL" != "";
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# Return minimum/maximum of two numbers.
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min = x: y: if x < y then x else y;
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max = x: y: if x > y then x else y;
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/* Reads a JSON file. */
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importJSON = path:
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builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile path);
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/* See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/749. Eventually we'd like these
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to expand to Nix builtins that carry metadata so that Nix can filter out
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the INFO messages without parsing the message string.
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Usage:
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{
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foo = lib.warn "foo is deprecated" oldFoo;
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}
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TODO: figure out a clever way to integrate location information from
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something like __unsafeGetAttrPos.
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*/
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warn = msg: builtins.trace "WARNING: ${msg}";
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info = msg: builtins.trace "INFO: ${msg}";
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}
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