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Document string context (#8595)

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* Document string context

Now what we have enough primops, we can document how string contexts
work.

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Felix Uhl <iFreilicht@users.noreply.github.com>
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- [output closure]{#gloss-output-closure}\
The [closure] of an [output path]. It only contains what is [reachable] from the output.
- [deriving path]{#gloss-deriving-path}
Deriving paths are a way to refer to [store objects][store object] that ar not yet [realised][realise].
This is necessary because, in general and particularly for [content-addressed derivations][content-addressed derivation], the [output path] of an [output] is not known in advance.
There are two forms:
- *constant*: just a [store path]
It can be made [valid][validity] by copying it into the store: from the evaluator, command line interface or another store.
- *output*: a pair of a [store path] to a [derivation] and an [output] name.
- [deriver]{#gloss-deriver}
The [store derivation] that produced an [output path].