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Update documentation for floats.

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Christian Theune 2016-01-06 08:41:53 +01:00
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doc/manual/expressions/language-values.xml
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@ -140,8 +140,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
</listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Integers</emphasis>, e.g.,
<literal>123</literal>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Numbers, which can be <emphasis>integers</emphasis> (like
<literal>123</literal>) or <emphasis>floating point</emphasis> (like
<literal>123.43</literal> or <literal>.27e13</literal>).</para>
<para>Numbers are type-compatible: pure integer operations will always
return integers, whereas any operation involving at least one floating point
number will have a floating point number as a result.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Paths</emphasis>, e.g.,
<filename>/bin/sh</filename> or <filename>./builder.sh</filename>.