* Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by two
single quotes. Example (from NixOS): job = '' start on network-interfaces start script rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver ${if videoDriver == "nvidia" then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver" else if cfg.driSupport then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver" else "" } rm -f /var/log/slim.log end script ''; This style has two big advantages: - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${. So you get a lot less escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS. The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as ""). ${ is also fairly rare. Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <|...|> were also considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks (thanks Martin). - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix expression. E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from the start of each line. This prevents unnecessary indentation in generated files (which sometimes even breaks things). See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
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- doc/manual/release-notes.xml 4 additions, 0 deletionsdoc/manual/release-notes.xml
- src/libexpr/lexer.l 15 additions, 0 deletionssrc/libexpr/lexer.l
- src/libexpr/nixexpr-ast.def 3 additions, 0 deletionssrc/libexpr/nixexpr-ast.def
- src/libexpr/parser.y 104 additions, 3 deletionssrc/libexpr/parser.y
- tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.exp 1 addition, 0 deletionstests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.exp
- tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix 107 additions, 0 deletionstests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix
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