Re: How does a gexp relate to a derivation?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> I recommend the paper on Gexps that walks you through the alternatives
> and motivates the design of Gexps: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01580582/en

The manual has a few examples to illustrate that:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/G_002dExpressions.html

As an exercise, try to see how you’d write these examples if you were to
use sexps instead of gexps.  This is what Guix did before gexps, and it
was tedious and error-prone (the article above has more about it).

HTH,
Ludo’.