lix/doc/manual/generate-builtin-constants.nix
John Ericson 22b278e011 Automatically document builtin constants
This is done in roughly the same way builtin functions are documented.

Also auto-link experimental features for primops, subsuming PR #8371.

Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-06-27 09:37:54 -04:00

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let
inherit (builtins) concatStringsSep attrValues mapAttrs;
inherit (import ./utils.nix) optionalString squash;
in
builtinsInfo:
let
showBuiltin = name: { doc, type, impure-only }:
let
type' = optionalString (type != null) " (${type})";
impureNotice = optionalString impure-only ''
Not available in [pure evaluation mode](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-pure-eval).
'';
in
squash ''
<dt id="builtin-constants-${name}">
<a href="#builtin-constants-${name}"><code>${name}</code>${type'}</a>
</dt>
<dd>
${doc}
${impureNotice}
</dd>
'';
in
concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (mapAttrs showBuiltin builtinsInfo))